Helping Gardeners Grow

When is a weed no longer a weed?  When it becomes the best option for making diesel fuel, say researchers in Peoria. We can thank the...

Would you put a solar water heater in your home if you knew it would pay for itself in ten years? What about five years? Three? I...

Yes I know, I’ve been absent. I have been logging, not blogging. For the past six weeks I have gone nowhere (well, almost nowhere) without m...

Maybe if I had hours to use up, and no books to read, gardens to tend, class work to do (or mindless crime dramas to watch) I would think ab...

The Dragon, May 25 You smell it before you see it. “Sex and Death” is what my friend April has taken to calling the short-lived Dragon Aru...

“Is that a lilac?” the thirty-something man asked. “No, but it’s lilac colored, so you’re halfway right,” I replied. Kindly, I think. Mas...

I’ve been waiting all winter for this. Finally, a garden salad! Young spinach leaves and sweet onion, a clementine and a quarter chicken bre...