It may be ingrained in folks to tidy up the garden when things start to die back in the fall, but many bits if not all of those plants are useful to a broad variety of wildlife as shelter and/or food in the colder weather to come. They may spend their winter in a curled up leaf; use browned milkweed stalks as a resting or observation perch on your lawn away from the cold snowy ground; feed from seeds of goldenrod; or many other possibles, depending on the visitors in your garden. Continue reading “Late Winter Wildlife Feeding”
Category: Plants
Any post that includes actual plants indoors or out.
The icy tree next door
The unexpected seed order
A friend of mine gave me a gift card to Territorial Seed Company, which is closer to the other coast so we hadn’t ordered from them before even though I had previously bookmarked a few of their products in my garden planning bookmark folder. They sell an abundance of kitchen garden crops within their products. Given our garden budget for this year had nothing earmarked for kitchen crops save one rosemary starter, this was a very welcome gift. Hopefully—with some careful seed saving—it will also be one that keeps on giving. Continue reading “The unexpected seed order”
Wild Seed Project in Maine
I forget how I stumbled upon their site, but recently I finally found a much closer source for sundial lupines (Lupinus perennis), which I have written about before. The Wild Seed Project in Maine had sundial seeds available, which is more in line with our budget than buying plants in containers. Nasami Farm is west of us here in Massachusetts and does have sundials, but only in one quart containers. I’ll write more about Nasami Farm in future posts. Continue reading “Wild Seed Project in Maine”
A roundabout tale of seed saving.
Especially when you are still rather new to gardening, sometimes when you want to add another plant to your garden, research into the specifics can be a bit of a surprise or even shocking. Even if it has a seemingly innocuous common name such as “Grandpa Ott”. Continue reading “A roundabout tale of seed saving.”
The Tree of Liberty
Good morning, Daylily.
Garden Growth–May 29, 2020
Mostly been spring cleaning in the garden the last few days and there is still so much to do. At least today I got some seeds in the ground! I will start soaking more tonight.
