My first vegetable garden is off to a good start! My seedlings are growing and growing, but the last frost date is still a couple of weeks away (and we had a sub 32 degree night this past week, so I’m not taking any chances). I started them in Jiffy peat pots on a tray [...]

i think…i hope not!! i had a really great batch going….Romas, Red and Pink Brandywine, Campbells…some Gypsy peppers, California Wonder, Anchos, eggplants, cukes….and i had the gro-lite  on them and the heater going as it is an inside room with no heat source of its own (closet we dont use)… ANNNND today in Chicago it hit [...]

My first iris of the year has bloomed! It’s one of the new ones I bought last summer. I can’t find the label that tells me its name, but isn’t it gorgeous?! Bearded iris are my alltime favorite flower. Woo-hoo!

Walking around a nursery we spotted this, and any employees or owners were nowhere to be found: Anybody know what it is? I can guess that it’s a monocot, but beyond that, I’m clueless (thanks, Botany class!) I think it’s absolutely beautiful but we won’t know if it will work for our home unless we [...]

Is Cilantro a type of parsley? Is Cilantro easy to grow? What I mean by easy is: I’ve always grown Basil by just putting the itty bitty black seeds in the ground and watering. And boom, tons of Basil. I want to try to grow a salsa garden and have never grown Cilantro. I’m not [...]

Okay, I’ve only recently started eating swiss chard. I sure as heck have never planted it, let alone not behind the stupid foot-crushing bird bath! This looks just like chard to me, but I need to be sure before I start eating it. If this is not swiss chard, what is it? How did it [...]

click the pics for gigantor closeups I bought this vine last spring and it only bloomed once, but now it is covered with buds! And they are odd looking buds.

due to a bad economy we’re selling the house. i thought it would be appropriate to give my room a farewell post. sorry about the tacky(?) placement of the jacket. i wear it everyday so it’s easier to put it there than my over-crowded closet. background info: the house was built in 1928 so the [...]

Would anyone want to venture a guess as to what this weed is? I had a bunch of these pop up in the alloment bed over the last week and I’m curious, but not quite so curious that I’m willing to let them grow. Diameter 1 inch, so quite big. And for other Charlotte NC [...]

Anyone here grow them? What varieties would you recommend?