Have you ever gotten ready to order from a mail order seed or plant merchant, only to discover if you’d ordered a few days sooner you could have gotten a discount or a freebie? I have. It’s more than annoying–it makes me feel like I’m losing my penny-pinching touch. So I decided that this year […]
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Gardening catalog deals and deadlines for 2007
January 5th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 6 Comments
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What kind of a seed buyer are you?
January 2nd, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 18 Comments
Carol at May Dreams Gardens wrote a series of thought-provoking questions on the gardener’s relationship to seeds. I decided to answer in my own blog, and I hope you do, too. More intriguing and less silly than all those memes going around.
Do you carefully read all of the seed catalogs sent to you and then […]
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Johnny Loves Me!
December 1st, 2006 by Talitha Purdy · 1 Comment
I mean, Johnny’s loves me. I happened to be looking at tomatoes online tonight (which is early for me!), and lo, I discovered Valley Girl! Despite anything anyone says to the contrary, I am going to believe this tomato was developed just for me. (I am a girl, and I am living in a Valley.) […]
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Testing Seed Germination. . . what do you learn?
March 22nd, 2006 by Talitha Purdy · 1 Comment
Not much.
As is my habit every spring, I test my seeds to see whether they’re still any good, or if I need to buy new ones. This is a very easy thing to do–you stick half a damp paper towel in a little plastic bag, drop in ten seeds (5 if you’re starting to run […]
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Answers to Betsy & Heather’s questions
February 28th, 2006 by Judy Miller · 14 Comments
Hi gals, isn’t it fun to dream of gardening when it’s raining too much to set foot in the garden? And, yes, Betsy, this is not the end of winter. In Boundary County we can have snow & freezes every month of the year so it’s not over yet. It’s a very […]
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Can you believe it?
October 1st, 2005 by Kathy Purdy · 1 Comment
I got my Thompson & Morgan seed catalog today. Talk about rushing the season! It’s usually the first catalog to arrive, but I don’t remember it ever coming this early. I must say, the ‘Fruit Punch’ Oriental poppies on the cover tempt me to break my vow of no more seed starting until the beds […]
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You never know who’s listening. . .
June 25th, 2005 by Talitha Purdy · 2 Comments
People who have been reading a while might remember this post of mine from a while back. Well, today we have a very similar story. Once again, it begins with me coming back from shopping–which is odd, because I actually very rarely go out shopping, only about once a month when I go out to […]
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