Tag Archive: climate

Waiting For Warmth: Gardening In A Cold Summer

Catherine Sherriffs

After long, cold winters and wet springs, gardeners look forward to capitalizing on the warm summer months by enjoying beautiful blooms and abundant yields from the fruit and veggie patch. But what happens when the warmth never arrives?  Unfortunately, this is shaping up to be one of those summers where people wish for better. Environment…

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Healthy Soil & Microbes Make It Rain?

The importance of building healthy soil is greater than organic growing. Even conventional growers are discovering this too. But the idea that organic soil matter will make it rain? Not just the soil, but the microbes it contains, and the ones that live on plants too. Scientific evidence that this is very possible is building, beginning…
February 11, 2017
Amber

Indoor Garden Air – Anything But Thin

When all of the beverage from a drinking cup has been imbibed, it is considered to be “empty”, and admittedly that definition tends to work as far as drinking needs go in gardening. It is sometimes helpful to remember that it is not empty at all, but rather full to the brim with air. In…
April 4, 2016
Grubbycup Stash