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  • How-To

    How to Create a Pest-Proof Vegetable Garden

    When my husband, Andy, and I moved to our new home in rural Washington, we knew we wanted a large vegetable garden. However, with our new idyllic location came to…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    8 Outstanding New Veggies 2016

    Wouldn’t it be great to have gardening friends who would grow all of those tempting new vegetable varieties you read about in catalogs, and tell you which were most worthy…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Sights and Sounds of July in the Garden

    The garden is getting into full swing now; plants are finally established and many are flowering or just beginning to fruit. This is one of my favorite times of being…

  • Article

    Gardeners Dig Country Living

    Fans of the country lifestyle flock together every year to celebrate a simpler way of life. The fair in Rhinebeck, N.Y., in early June offered vegetable gardeners something old, something…

  • Article

    Salsa Verde with Wild Weeds

    I thought for sure that I had posted the recipe for making salsa verde with botanicals foraged from in and around the garden, however I can only find my traditional…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Rosies Workwear Ready for Gardening

    I’d never owned a pair of bib overalls until I heard from Rosies Workwear for Women. These comfortable gardening overalls and coveralls are specially made for any woman who has…

  • Article

    Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata)

    Yes, it is an invasive plant and garlic mustard grows all over the place--however if you have it, you might as well eat it. It is a nutritious leafy green…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Great Gardening Gifts for Father’s Day

    If the guy in your life spends most of the summer tending the vegetable garden, why not give him a hand? As in hand him a few new gardening tools…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Seeds and the Art of Hitchhiking

    Reproduction may be science, but seeds have hitchhiking down to an art.

  • Article

    Wild Bergamot or Purple Bee Balm (Monarda fistulosa)

    Last blog, I wrote about the red-flowered bee balm (Monarda didyma) and promised that I would write about wild bee balm (Monarda fistulosa). So here it is--still green--though it will…