#gardening

A garden teaches patience because it has to. You cannot rush a tomato. But patience isn't passivity. The gardener is busy — every day there's somethi…

Grafting joins a scion (the desired variety) to a rootstock (chosen for vigor, disease resistance, or size control). The two grow together as one plan…

The seeds you save are adapted to your soil, your water, your sun. The seeds you buy are adapted to a greenhouse in California. Five years of saving…

A compost pile is not a pile of rotting material. It's a managed microbial ecosystem. Carbon-to-nitrogen ratio should be roughly 30:1. Too much carbo…

Tomatoes in by mid-April — too early last year, lost six to a late frost. The almanac says May 5 for this zone but the almanac doesn't know my yard.…