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There are still endless lists of garden chores for those who garden where winter is mild – California, the Pacific coast, the British Isles,…

My first book – Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening launches on Jan. 1 with pre-orders started already on Amazon looking good. Thanks to…

Forced winter vegetables like this Belgian Endive in my garden may be the next hot food trend home gardeners and chefs haven’t  rediscovered yet….

Tomato tomahto? With squash and pumpkin, it’s much worse than that timeless debate. Without even daring to step into the omnipresent ‘Pumpkin Spice’ arena…

As Food and Wine magazine wrote this month – ‘The Cabbage Craze is Officially ‘Real’. I would add “The cabbage craze is real again.”….

‘Hypertufa Containers – Creating and Planting an Alpine Trough Garden is a new book by Lori Chips that addresses a very specific gardening method…

Niki Jabbour’s newest book Veggie Garden Remix will inspire you to try new varieties and versions of both familiar veggies and even some new…

 Parsley varieties, such as these seed-raised varieties (from Johnny’s) outperform any un-named generic variety bought at a nursery or garden center. It’s time to…

Am I an adventure junkie? Not exactly, but I do like travel, different cultures, world travel as well as plants and most of nature…

Meconopsis racemosa, one of the blue poppies so famous in the Himalaya. Yeah. Leeches… …but, blue poppies! I’m trying really hard to limit my…