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Proper pepper care (as they get ready to flower)

It is time to be thinking about saving seeds but first, it is time to discover your inner rogue.

On Saturday we celebrated the Solstice in the dank gloom of this unseasonable cold and wet June.

In the distance there is thunder. Again.

We've been in full-fledged spring rush mode: breaking lots of new ground, weeding, shaping beds, amending soil, and, of course, sowing seeds.

Un-preparing beds for self-sowers.

In my estimation, May is the most frenetic month on the garden calendar.

So, what I erroneously dubbed "summer" in my last post was merely a whiff of the incredible and startling heat wave that has descended on the northeast the past four...

Spring had been plodding along, coolish, slower than usual, and then--with little warning--a solid blast of warmth soars up on southern winds.

The days are now more light than dark, and the promising green sprouts embolden the winter weary to believe that warmer weather is soon to come.

All young beings benefit from this benign neglect, including vegetable seedlings.

The past few nights have been quite cold for late March, which means seedlings need extra protection to make it through the night alive.