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Organize Your Own Seed Swap
by Heather Jo Flores Whether you save your own seeds or just have a bunch of leftover packets from years past, a seed swap is a great way to expand the diversity of both your garden and your...
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Food Not Lawns
Bringing the farm to your front yard by Heather Jo Flores Growing food at home is hardly a new idea. But in this culture, where more people know how to take the perfect selfie than how to grow a...
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Can't Get No Love
Underutilized plants you should try today by Genevieve Schmidt In the big-money world of plant breeding, where prima donna perennials are primped and photographed for their PR launch, a number of...
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Plant a Living Playhouse
by Heather Jo Flores It's the middle of May and time to plant sunflowers! There are many beautiful varieties to choose from, and they are easy to grow — just work up a spot in the soil, poke some...
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A Recipe for Popularity
Plant more cutting flowers by Genevieve Schmidt Though I think of myself as a reasonably pleasant person, I don't attempt to fool myself as to the source of my popularity every summer. No, it's not my...
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Humboldt Homegrown Tomatoes
Tips for temperate gardeners by Heather Jo Flores In a foggy, temperate climate, most of us know the drill: Start seeds indoors in early spring and use grow lights if you have 'em. Plant in fertile...
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Go Mediterranean
A stylish and water-wise landscape by Genevieve Schmidt Colorful yet refined, Mediterranean garden design seems to touch on so much of what's right in the gardening world today: an emphasis on tough,...
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Wisdom of the Weeds
by Heather Jo Flores"Weeds are weeds only from our human egotistical point of view, because they grow where we do not want them. In nature, however, they play an important and interesting role.…
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Fluffy and Fido in the Garden
Animal- and plant-friendly planning by Genevieve Schmidt Anyone with pets knows what integral parts of the family they become, yet Fluffy and Fido's antics in the landscape — the digging, peeing and...
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Eat the Weeds!
Twelve edible weeds and how to nibble them by Heather Jo Flores Take a moment to ponder your relationship with the wild plants in your garden. Chickweed, thistle, pigweed, plantain.…
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All Hail the Heather
Year-round color on an easy-care plant by Genevieve Schmidt Whether planted in drifts or used singly in the foreground of a shrub planting, heathers are one of the easiest plants to succeed with on...
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Growing Gorgeous Garlic
by Heather Jo Flores From Ancient Egypt to Humboldt County, garlic is one of those plants that you can find in almost every garden. It is one of the oldest cultivated crops, and all around the world...
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A Walk on the Dark Side
Halloween-inspired plants by Genevieve Schmidt Many of us have been pressed into sedate suits and neutral colors by day jobs or a misplaced sense of propriety as we age, but if you've been squashing...
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Seed Saving Made Simple
by Heather Jo Flores This time of the year, the garden might at first glance look messy, unkempt. The plants are starting to dry out, turn brown and die.…
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Blowin' in the Wind
Evergreen grasses for the winter garden The winter garden brings to mind rhododendrons, dwarf conifers and plants with colorful stemwork like red twig dogwoods. And while these plants form a strong...
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Mulch Much?
It's that wonderful time of the year when leaves are falling, plants are decomposing and moisture is in the air. A perfect time for mulching!…
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Armchair Gardening
Cold weather reading While our recent rains have been welcome from our drought-ridden perspective, they do make it more challenging to get out and actually, you know, garden. Walking on the wet ground...
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Happy Trails
Organic elimination of slugs and snails There is nothing more frustrating than bounding out to your garden in the morning to see your baby plants and discovering that they have been devoured by slugs...
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To Bamboo or Not to Bamboo
I recently received an interesting question from NCJ staff writer Linda Stansberry, and it seemed like a great topic for this month's column. She writes:…
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High-Value Veggies:
Grow the right plants for your budget While growing your own vegetables is often touted as a way of saving money, that hasn't been my experience. On the surface, it sounds like a $3 pack of seeds can...
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