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Whatever you think of Burpee, America's largest seed company, I think they've been pretty shrewd in the way they market their wares to would-be vegetable gardeners. These are the vulgarians who...
It's not enough to write a book anymore; you've got to have a video, too. I'm lucky to have a brother in the film industry, which makes this much easier. When The Earth Moved came out, Jason shot...
Newbie worm composter here, trying a large homemade bin (shown here) but dreaming of something MUCH better. That's because this single-compartment system is waaay too inexact, too messy, too...
I have a checkered past with vegetable gardening. It is so cool in the summer here on the northern California coast that it never gets hot enough for tomatoes, the one vegetable I really want to...
A "farm" beside Route 5 in California's Central Valley So, here's an interesting little problem that actually became a problem in 2008, when there were food riots in developing countries and...
Michele's rant about landscapes in her home town prompted me to take a closer look at the photo I took recently of the house I lived in for my first 15 years. It sits in a 20-home development in Bon...
The Smithsonian Institution's Archive of American Gardens has created their very own Flickr account and we're all invited to visit, tag and comment on these images of gardens from the 1920s and '30s - deemed the "golden era" for...
There's a new biography of Molly Ivins - called Molly Ivins, a Rebel Life by Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith - and it's on my Christmas Wish List. Here in a review I found this reminder of her ability...
Pansies this week in an alley in Saratoga Springs, NY. There are so many of them growing in such a narrow crack between the wall and pavement that I'm assuming they are self-seeded, possibly from the window box above.
I'm here in New Jersey with my family for Thanksgiving. I'm grateful for the family part. New Jersey, less so. I've been unhappy with the state of yard-dom in the Garden State since I was five. If I were queen,...
