The Dirt
Beautiful Food
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. […]
Basil and Chili: A Love Affair
A Tasty Garden Experiment by Sandy Swegel Do you like chili peppers? The plants are super easy to grow and tolerate a lot of droughts and benign neglect in the garden. The only problem I’ve ever had with peppers is that the seeds take forever to germinate. One year my seeds still hadn’t germinated for three […]
Communicating with Plants
Use Your Own Intuition to Garden by Sandy Swegel Reading through all the garden porn…uh I mean seed catalogs…I found myself quite transported this morning. Looking at the beautiful pictures in the catalogs, I realized that when I considered getting seeds for a certain plant, my mind was quite filled with images of what the […]