Going to Seed?

weeds or food?

“Don’t let your vegetables go to seed. Going to seed is bad.” I’ve no clue where I picked up this piece of gardening advice. Maybe it was a confusion on my part. Vegetables like lettuce taste bad when they go to seed, but going to seed isn’t bad. Nope, it’s not.

Grow Food [...]

July 16th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Green Garden | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

The Edible Flower Garden

The Edible Flower Garden is a book by Rosalind Creasy. Rosalind is a leading designer of edible gardens and the author of several award winning edible landscaping books. Below is my review of The Edible Flower Garden.

Why Edible Flowers?

To me there is some kind of fascination with the idea of eating flowers. They are brightly [...]

July 11th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Green Books | Comments are closed

My Green Improvements List #1

Last night I was rereading Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison. I was particularly struck by two different statements I read that I don’t remember from my last reading. “Permaculture is not energy- or capital-intensive, rather it is information-intensive.” With my penchant for wandering around picking up information it would seem that permaculture could be [...]

September 5th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Green Community, Personal Words | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)