The Dirt
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 […]
Bring More Color to Your Wild Areas
Wildflower Seeds by Sandy Swegel At this time of year when we’re mired in cold and snow, I yearn for two delights of Spring: when the daffodils and tulips bloom and when the meadows burst with wildflowers. One thing about wildflowers though, especially in our suburban gardens. A few years after planting it seems that […]