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Snail mail surprise

What timing! Just as I posted the next-to-last entry of the vegetable gardening series… the Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog arrived in the mail. One look is enough to send me running for a pen to begin marking notes, by tomorrow the pages will be dog-eared. (And I’ve already placed an order!) This catalog is [...]

Vegetable gardening: 101 (part 5)

In the smallest of yards and the biggest of cities people make room to grow summer’s essential vegetables: tomatoes, peppers and eggplant. (O.K. technically they’re fruits.) In pots or plots everyone loves fresh, juicy tomatoes ripened in the summer sun, crisp sweet peppers and tender eggplant picked fresh for cooking. Seed varieties are available from [...]