I have to get on my soapbox for a little while… While I assume that every visitor to The Curious Gardener already has something to do with growing plants, I feel obliged to encourage you all to take the next … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2012
I’m growing beets for the first time, thanks to The Weed, who shared some seeds with me. They were the oddest seeds I’d ever seen – none of them the same, each looking dry and extremely bumpy! And then I … Continue reading
Well, it looks like my first winter melon plant has found its second wind. After producing the Little Monster, about 70% of the vine died out, making me worry that it would not be able to catch its breath and … Continue reading
Learn from my hard-won lessons. It’s caterpillar season again, and short of frequent examinations of the undersides of all the leaves of our most susceptible plants, it’s really difficult to find and remove offending caterpillars until they’ve already done significant … Continue reading