Gardening
Container Gardening: Winter Edition
Why do I enjoy Container Gardening? We are fans of container gardening around the Pixie's Pocket homestead. Saffron, lettuces, herbs, tomatoes - they all live...
A bit about Dandelion: Herbal and Culinary Recipes
Dandelions. Dandelions are amazing! My longtime readers know that I often wax poetic about this despised "weed" - I sing songs to plants I find in...
Growing Potatoes in Containers: The Harvest
I think I should probably take this class on Craftsy before I try again... On our last episode... Alright! Remember way...
Growing Potatoes in Containers: An Experiment
I recall my grandfather growing potatoes in the garden when I was a kid. He was recently retired and happily industrious in the backyard of...
Growing Onions from Scraps
I may never buy onions again! It has been over a month since I last ordered local, organic veggies from Mother Earth Produce, but in...
Eat your weeds and wildflowers
I have to ask you a favor....it isn't a favor for me, specifically. It's a favor for all of us...STOP USING PESTICIDES! Not all bugs...
Soapwort Recipes: Green Cleaning from your Garden!
Soapwort is a versatile plant and it is easy to grow, harvest, and use around the home. It will clean skin, lace, quilts, hair, and bodies. Even...
Planning the Garden – 2014
I walked around my yard this weekend during the one hour or so of sunshine, and it was wonderful. I brought a notebook and pen,...
Let’s Talk About: Catnip Herbal Remedies
Oh, sweet Catnip! My yard has a very happy spot in it during the warm months - right next to a sun-warmed rock wall lives a...
Tree Identification – North Carolina Conifer (Solved!)
Identified: Colorado Blue Spruce! Update: This North Carolina Conifer has been successfully identified as a Colorado Blue Spruce by the awesome folks...
May and June 2011 Growing Update…
Lavender in May, Image by MSP Ok, so we put our tomatoes out way too early...but we were given leggy tomato...
Dandelion and Violets: A Joyful Herbal Infusion
I am sipping a lovely cup of Spring. When I nipped meself outside yesterday to feed the chickens (and spoil the neighbor's goats because I'm...
What’s Coming Up in my Garden?
Spring is close...everyone that I see is big-footed and falling over themselves in a state of twitterpation. We had a lovely, loud rolling thunderstorm last...
Let’s Talk About: Peppermint
If you want something quick and easy to grow that will spread like wildfire and provide you with a bounty of uses, might I suggest...
I Love Spring!! An April To-Do List
April is here, and the Pisgah Forest is verdant and buzzing with life. The grass is growing, the earth is warming, and the mockingbirds and...
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