Gardening

Gardening

The Great Annual Seed Sort

Is it too early to start planning the spring garden? Absolutely not if you start your own seeds. Spring will be here before we know it and in preparation I have just completed my Great Annual Seed Sort. “What the heck is the Great Annual Seed Sort?”, you ask. I […]

Gardening

My Best Piece of Gardening Advice

Happy Winter Solstice! I sit this morning and contemplate after the longest night of the year. Today is the official first day of winter and also the first day that our daylight hours begin to increase in the Northern Hemisphere. The gardening season will soon again be upon us. The […]

Gardening

The Joy of Garden Giving

Happy December Siskiyou County. To be honest I had a difficult dilemma deciding what to write about for this bi-weekly article edition. It is hard to be inspired about gardening when the days are the shortest and the darkest of the entire year. I don’t know about your corner of […]

Gardening

For the Love of Leaves

When I was a teenager, the most dreaded of all Fall chores was raking leaves. Oh how I loathed it. I would rather stack fire wood. These days the fifty-something me looks at fallen leaves in a new and glorious light. The more you get to know my gardening style, […]