Celery pesto

Last year in the demo garden I decided to grow cutting celery, also known as leaf celery (also - correct me if I'm wrong - Ch…

Ornamental chard and wild garden kale

Window box in commercial building, Charleston, SC, with lovely red-stemmed chard as ornament, April 5.  (I did notice that in the…

Derwood Demo Garden Update

This exciting photo shows the Montgomery County MG Demo Garden: Vegetable Division, as it looked yesterday morning (after we'…

Lead in soils, soilless mixes, worm composting

Yes, this is the catch-all soil post!  I have too much gardening to do for separate posts. First, I wanted to point you to a bran…

Freeze warning!!

Attention gardeners!  A substantial part of Maryland will be experiencing temperatures at or below freezing in the early hours of…

Leafy greens, new and overwintered

I dropped by the demo garden this morning and found last fall's radicchio growing with spring energy, not to mention consider…

How to succeed at succession

I'm teaching a class this Saturday on intensive vegetable gardening (at Montgomery College , Germantown; I think you can stil…

Pee-wee purple pak choi

The space under my seed-starting lights is already filled up, mostly with little leafy greens.  Pretty soon I will have to move t…

New blog for Frederick County MGs!

The Frederick County Master Gardeners are working on a new demonstration garden that will be full of vegetables, fruits, herbs an…

More recycled materials for gardens

Since we are all taking advantage of the warm winter to work on preparing our gardens for the season (are we?  I hope I'm the…

Seed and plant source project

image by Bob Nixon A group of community gardeners is putting together a listing of sources all over the state of Maryland for see…

Great book about food gardening and cultural identity

I've just finished reading a fascinating book, The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of E…

Getting ready to start your seeds?

Are those seeds you ordered arriving in the mail?  Can't wait to get started on seed-starting?  It's almost February - le…

Seed Catalog: Bountiful Gardens

Bountiful Gardens is one of those catalogs that make you feel all sustainable and tree-huggy just browsing through it.  They are …

Seed Catalog: Pinetree Garden Seeds

I order more seeds from Pinetree than from any other catalog, which is the bargain-hunter, practical me coming through.  Where e…

Seed Catalog: D. Landreth Seed Company

Landreth's is one of the few seed catalogs out there you have to pay to receive ($5) but it's more like a historical doc…

Seed Catalog: Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

We don't have a lot of seed companies in the Mid-Atlantic region.  There's Meyer Seed in Baltimore, whom I've dealt …

Seed exchanges coming up!

Coming up soon: the Washington Gardener Seed Exchanges !  The January 28 event at Brookside Gardens will feature our own Jon Trau…

Seed Catalog: Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

In December, Bob gave us several posts about his favorite seed catalogs - and now I'm going to continue the series with some…

Incredible edible Todmorden and Baltimore

A couple of links for your reading pleasure today! I can't remember if we linked to this before, but a replay never hurts: he…