The Singing Seed

12/29/2022

Garlic contains a wealth of vitamins and minerals, including manganese, potassium, iron, magnesium, zinc, selenium, calcium, beta-carotene, and Vitamin C. Eat more garlic!

06/28/2014

Ah! Forgot about this simple way to propagate more tomato plants. Super easy!

Discover the fastest way to propagate tomato plants right in your own garden! Click: http://bit.ly/1lcf6hA

05/10/2014

The first spring harvest... Always tastes better after a long winter and a cold vortex!

04/19/2014

Some great gardening books for children!

Inch by inch, row by row, learn to make your garden grow! Browse through these seed-filled reads and explore the outdoors through books.

03/08/2014

The best 4 season gardening book... on Google books!

If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North American garde...

10/22/2013

How to attract more butterflies next spring. Thanks Gardening Jones!

If you want to attract butterflies to your garden, you need to know which butterflies are local to your area, and what plants they like.

09/28/2013

A quick tip on preparing
greens.

Introducing: A Quicker Way to Cut Kale. http://bit.ly/16w8yp8

09/08/2013

Get your heirloom seeds! Here's a google list...

Off Grid Info - Giant List of Where To Get Heirloom Seeds, Non GMO seeds, Organic seeds

09/01/2013

10 year old wins at growing biggest cabbage!

A 10-year-old boy has won Alaska's annual giant cabbage contest, submitting a 92.3-pound (41.9 kg) specimen named "Bob" to officials at the state fair. :-) Produce can grow to enormous sizes under Alaska's summer midnight sun.


Source: http://eideard.com/2013/09/01/ten-year-old-wins-alaskas-giant-cabbage-contest/

08/31/2013

Are you a heirloom tomato snob?

Following up on a series of tongue-in-cheek yet educational books by contributing editor David Kamp, Vanity Fair began releasing short video entries from “The Snob’s Dictionary” earlier this summer. After putting out an episode on American International Pictures for film snobs and one on Nick Drake…

08/27/2013

Mimi Airstream garden. Sooooo cute!

Today's photos are from Susan Clemens in Aliso Viejo, California. Susan says, "I don't have a yard (I live in a second floor condo) so I create miniature gardens as centerpieces or to sit on my desk...

08/20/2013

Are you a tomato snob?

Entry #404, Heirloom Tomatoes: Irregularly shaped, vividly colored fruits grown from the seeds of non-hybridized tomato plants, thereby standing apart from d...