Thankfulness | Loving Nature's Garden

Dear reader, thanks for...

Lucy and Frank, Nov 2010

Dear reader,

The turkey is defrosting, Thanksgiving has almost reached Kansas.

I’m thankful for you.

This year through reading my blog you have given me:

insight into what holds me back, as I think about how to help you and encourage you

enthusiasm to take on new gardening projects so that I can share them [...]

6 Paths to Finding Happiness in a Garden

Squash Blossom by ILoveButter

Today’s post is by guest Eileen O’Shea, author of Threshold Place. While we think we are caring for our gardens, perhaps gardening is just as much about finding happiness.

In 1975 I suddenly inherited a vegetable garden. My sister Rose had started the garden. I’d watched her read library books about growing [...]

The Wonder Potato

Yukon Gold Potatoes by Summer Tomato

With St Patrick’s Day almost here it seems appropriate to pay tribute to the wonder potato, or should I say the wondrous potato.

Later this week I’m going to post an article on everything you need to grow potatoes, but today I just want us to think about the amazing [...]

I’m a gardener because my mom’s father cared for primroses and potatoes and every spring he made a pilgrimage to buy baby leeks from his cousin, who ran a garden supply company, which was really hard for Grandpa to reach without his own car.

Grandpa was one of the garden lovers in my [...]