Parsley - Fine Gardening
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Kitchen Gardening
Get Acquainted with These Improved Varieties of Herbs
One of the best things about being in the plant business for over 40 years has been trying out new and rediscovered plants. Every year I like to grow the…
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Article
How to Attract Good Bugs to Your Garden
It happens every spring. First, a few aphids appear on the cold crops. I barely notice. A week later, the aphids have doubled. I start to get concerned. After another…
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Design
Liz’s All Season Garden
Today Liz Cordova is welcoming us into her Southern California garden, starting with a beautiful quote: “And since all this loveliness cannot be Heaven, I know in my heart it…
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Design
What Vegetables to Plant for Fall and When to Plant Them
In my northern garden, the arrival of autumn doesn’t signal an end to the growing season. Instead, it’s a shift from the heat-loving vegetables of summer to the cool- and…
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Article
Wild Weeds and Seasonal Greens
Just finished teaching a folk school class on Wild Weeds and Seasonal Greens at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas. We foraged for weeds and combined them with…
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Article
Harvest Your Herbs and Make Green Sauce!
Here it is the last week of June and my cilantro, rocket, dill, and parsley are over a foot tall and some are wanting to bolt. Get out there and…
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Article
Spring Harbingers are Popping Out
After all of the cold weather this winter, most of the nation is experiencing a late spring. We are anxiously awaiting the arrival of spring--here are a few herbal harbingers…
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Design
4 Easy, Pretty, and Edible Planting Designs
I consider myself pretty lucky to have thousands of heirloom vegetable, flower, and herb varieties in my backyard—which happens to be Seed Savers Exchange's Heritage Farm in Decorah, Iowa. Although…
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Kitchen Gardening
Attract Beneficial Insects to Your Garden
Get acquainted with the good bugs and lure them to your garden by planting flowers they like. It's a green way to keep your vegetables healthy.
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Kitchen Gardening
How to Grow Parsley
This indispensable, easy-to-grow culinary herb wins accolades for its piquant flavor. It’s highly ornamental in pots, borders, or the vegetable garden; and it stores and freezes beautifully.