After cleaning the brush from a couple of my garden beds, I found my green theme for this year's St. Patrick's Day … click on title for more
A Green Post
Tag: Cee’s FOTD
Backyard Story – Purple Corn
This is a fable of what not to do when choosing seed for planting, exemplified by my experience with purple corn last year … click on title for more
FOTD – Poinsettias
During the Christmas season, there seems to be no vacant spot without a poinsettia, adorning gardens and churches, as well as many other public places … click on title for more
FOTD – Harvest Update: Salsola
Another one of my new-to-me crops this year was salsola (Salsola komarovii), a potherb originally from Japan; it caught my attention in the seed catalogue because it looked a lot like the Mexican potherb known as romeritos (Suaeda spp), which grows mostly around the salty lake areas outside Mexico City … click on title for more
FOTD – Harvest Update: Carrots
Homegrown carrots are just the crunchiest, juiciest and most flavourful of all. Back in April, I started a patch of carrots with what I described as a "cornucopia of many varieties of carrot seed", with the conviction that this measure would increase germination success rates … click on title for more
My Slice of Mexico 