Mid and Late-Season Planting
My latest Globe and Mail Microfarming article came out on Saturday. I've included the text below.
My editor sent a photographer out this time so there are some pictures in the printed version not taken by me, and one of me planting arugula online.
Question: I am in South Mississippi and my Mother wants to know where you get the pink watermelon radish seed and how she can get some? - Betty
Hi Betty,
Watermelon radish are a fairly unknown winter radish that
I've never been able to determine why borage (Borago officinalis) flowers, which are typically blue, sometimes turn pink. Some books mention the possibility of pink and even white flowers but don't account for why they appear.
I don't
A friend gave me a pack of these "I Double Heart Jesus" hair bobbles years back and I've been trying to find an excuse to keep them ever since.
I lived the bulk of my life with
These gooseberries aren't from my garden, although judging by the chewed up state of its leaves I'd hazard a guess that they have suffered a similar plight.
A week or two back, what was supposed to be
The following article was printed over the weekend as a part of my food gardening series in 
Yesterday, I found this variegated Cuban oregano plant for only a couple of bucks at a small parking lot nursery. Isn't it gorgeous?! I wish the internet had smell-o-vision and you could get a whiff of this
Here's a little trick I employ when the holes in the bottom of a container are too big to hold the soil in at planting time.