The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

W hen I read that petunias made delightful winter companions my eyebrows shot up!  It never occurred to me petunias could be a house plan...

I love early advertising! This appeared in England in  Gardening, Illustrated :  For Town and Country. A Weekly Journal for Am...

I find this story delightful.   Gentlemen in the early 1800s vying for the bragging rights to being the inventor of rhubarb jam. ...

I'm  busy trying to get a new rhubarb bed prepared for a spring planting.  My husband and I are transporting yummy compost from the to...

Wannock was a well known spot since the mid-1800s as far as I can see.  The strawberry gardens there made a pleasant destination when combi...

I n a  History of New York During the Revolutionary War   the diet of a hale old general was noted to contain a great deal of "flip&qu...