Our golden retriever, Lucy, left us last spring at age fourteen. She was always very helpful in the kitchen and garden, eating overgrown green beans, apple and pear cores, kale stalks and pretty much every other leftover vegetable and fruit except rhubarb. Lucy treated our early morning walks as trips down a buffet line. Depending [Continue]
Before modern medicine, before paper was made and books were written, before the internet, before any form of written communication, the only way people had to learn the uses of plants was by trial and error and by passing information along orally. Long ago, cultures all over the world independently came to believe that plants [Continue]
Almost every gardener discovers aphids on their plants at one time or another. Before I get into what they are and how to control them, here is the most interesting thing about them: female aphids are born already pregnant. In fact inside the newly born aphid girls are embryos that have more embryos inside them. [Continue]