Toilet Roll Seed-Starter
Through the magic of online photo-sharing I have been catching a peak at little seedlings coming up all over the Northern Hemisphere. I've also been enjoying the smell of tomato plants sprouting fresh leaves right in my own home grow-op. The promise of spring
I often dream of hens clucking around in a small garden pecking at bugs and laying fresh, organic eggs but alas that is not going to happen living in the cold, white north with no backyard or shelter against raccoons
Since I have begun talking about seeds and showing photos of my little seedlings, people have been writing in to ask me what I'm growing. I have been purposefully avoiding saying too much about
Okay so the succulents are half-dead and it's actually a corny window display for a glasses store but this shallow plexiglass planter box found while walking through Portland, Oregon is at heart a good idea. Shallow-rooted succulents like hens and chicks would do 
Here's the follow-up to last week's 

one great big ol' job-distracting, e-mail notifying beep. So, imagine my surprise when today's 
