by Daisy | Nov 19, 2013 | Fencepost, Reviews
Of all the books on growing food, this one deals with what may be the most precious and fragile component of food production: water. After all, fine soil, gracious sunlight, the most carefully chosen seeds and plants, without water, is doomed. How desperate the...
by Daisy | Nov 4, 2013 | Conversation, Fencepost
It’s also possible I grew and ate something else, in which case it has been great knowing all of you. You may ask how I could do such a thing? How could I grow something and not know what it is AND how could I eat something without knowing what it was? The...
by Daisy | Oct 21, 2013 | Garden, Plants & Uses
My master gardener training this year included sessions at the Memphis Botanic Gardens led by garden employees/experts. At the end of a tour of the new herb garden, the leader shared her favorite if-she-could-only-have-one herb: tulsi, or sacred basil. Back home, with...
by Daisy | Oct 15, 2013 | Conversation, Fencepost
They’re pretty, but should I strip them off? I planted male hybrid asparagus but apparently some females crept in somehow and I have seeds. Some sources say the seeds sap the strength from the plants and should be removed. Actually, they say the entire plant,...
by Daisy | Oct 3, 2013 | Fencepost, Flops
I installed row covers over several beds because the seedlings of my fall/winter crops were getting eaten by bugs, dug up by cats, and stolen by fairies. I pounded 12″ segments of rebar into the ground and curved 1″ pvc plumbing pipe over them. Then I...
