The Dirt
The Secret Lives of Vegetables
Everything You Didn’t Know About Your Vegetables by Sandy Swegel This would be a better title for this fantastic new book that tells you how to double or even triple the nutrient value of your organic vegetables. At a time when it seems like grocery store prices are doubling and tripling, this seems like a […]
After the Hail
How to Recover Your Garden After a Storm by Sandy Swegel “Gardening in Colorado sucks” is how my friend described her garden after a violent storm full of hail and tornadoes passed through the towns east of Boulder this week. Much more vivid expletives were used by all as we surveyed the destruction brought by […]
Stalking the Wild Monarch
Plant Milkweed Now by Sandy Swegel It’s Show and Tell time. It’s time to take the kids or some curious adults outside and prove your superior knowledge of the ways of nature and introduce them to butterfly eggs. It’s been a good milkweed year in the wild this year. Lots of spring rains followed by […]