To our regular readers (and new ones too, I guess), Sorry, but we’re taking about two weeks off.  A much needed break.  But we will be back on March 8 refreshed and ready to go.   And spring is just around the corner, so we’ll be writing more about our own garden, as well as preparing [...]

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There’s also lots of very helpful advice. Here’s one you don’t see everyday: a chart on germination temperatures for different plant seeds. They also have pest control products (ever seen lady bug lure before? – it attracts ladybugs and other beneficial insects to your garden).

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Tulips. We all know that a great many tulips come fom Holland. With a name like the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm, you would think that this is also a Holland company, but it isn’t. Wooden Shoe Tulip farm is in Oregon. The Pacific Northwest is becoming a major player in the bulb business.

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Cannas, or Canna Lilies, lost favor for a while in the American garden, but we’re rediscovering the beauty of these tall flowers with large colorful heads with interesting leaf patterns. By the way, Cannas aren’t true lilies, but are members of the Cannaceae family.

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Happiness Farms. Nice name, hunh? “HAPPINESS FARMS, INC is the world’s largest commercial caladium farm.” Enough said. If you’re looking for caladiums, this is the place.

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Check out the Tasteful Kitchen in the menu bar. There’s an herb usage chart and tips for how to harvest and store fresh herbs. There’s a page on herbs and antioxidants and a page on canning tomatoes (with recipes). They even sell both garden tools and kitchen gadgets. Nice site. Click on their logo to go there

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Beans, beans and more beans. All sorts of beans. Broad Beans, Dry/Shell, Flat Podded, French Filet, Green Bush, Lima, Pole Beans, Purple Podded, Runner Beans, Soybeans, Yellow Bush. I don’t even know what all of those are.

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There are all sorts of catalogs for the Garden Dreamer, both online and off line.  Let’s start with seed catalogs.  And let’s start our look at seed catalogs with Johnny’s Seed Catalog.   What I like about Johnny’s is that they don’t sell any varietal or tool that they haven’t tested themselves.  And their list [...]

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