All About Planting Peas by Sandy Swegel Rev your garden engines folks. Today is St. Patrick’s Day and the official start of pea season and there’s no need to wait. You have jobs to do today — it’s time to plant more peas! Make sure beds are weeded. Those mallows from last year are easy […]
Heirloom Vegetable Seeds by Sandy Swegel These three veggies you gotta grow at home because they aren’t easy to find in grocery stores. Even if you can buy them, they are so much better fresh out of the garden AND super easy to grow. Broccoli Raab Rapini This is a relative to big broccoli stalks. You […]
The Ins and Outs of Growing Kale by Sandy Swegel Mixed baby kales are the current darlings of the produce section…and in my refrigerator are Lacinato Kale, Organic Lacinato Kale, and Organic Red Russian Kale. Several companies now sell thrice-washed baby kales that are ready to use in salads, stir-fries, soups or juices. As cute […]
Gardening Tips by Sandy Swegel Whenever I start to think about a new structure I need for the garden, straw bales are what first come to mind. Having a bunch of straw bales is like having an entire box of Legos….there’s not much you can’t build. I started thinking about a cold frame today because I […]
Different Ways to Garden by Sandy Swegel So we were hanging out at BBB Seed amid giant sacks of seeds waiting to be shipped all over the US this week talking about how many different kinds of people bought our seeds and how they all gardened in their own unique way. One definite trend we […]
Heirloom Vegetable Seeds by Sandy Swegel Romanesco broccoli is a favorite of gardeners, chefs and mathematicians. Gardeners love its exotic shape and lime green color. Chefs adore its presentation on a platter and its great flavor, especially roasted. And mathematicians laud Romanesco as a perfect example of fractal geometry in nature with its swirling spirals. […]
Preparing for Late Summer Harvest and Beyond by Sandy Swegel I was surfing the garden internet last night at Garden Rant http://gardenrant.com/2012/06/grazing-my-way-through-the-lull.html where blogger Michele Owens is lamenting the midsummer lull in her vegetable garden. It’s so true, late June is a difficult time in both the vegetable and flower garden. There was the wild […]
Escaping the Weather by Sandy Swegel They’d run for their lives! This week anyway. Extreme weather conditions prevail here in Colorado and throughout the country. Here in Boulder, we’re enduring day after day of record-setting temps over 100. Plants are crisping just from the 4% humidity. And as we learned in our last severe drought […]
Help Your Plants Escape the Heat by Sandy Swegel It’s hot hot hot here in Colorado and to make it worse, smoke from the wildfires out of control has caused local authorities to issue “stay indoors” advisories. We’re all suffering, plants especially since they can’t get up and come inside away from the heat and particulate […]
Bring Them Inside for a Visit by Sandy Swegel Even though I don’t have a cutting garden, I love to bring flowers into the house, especially delicate fragile ones that can disappear in a formal arrangement. This morning on a walk through an abandoned lot, I saw some pretty blue flax. I snipped them and a […]