You Grow Girl™

I spent yesterday afternoon multi-tasking between a series of deadlines and making fall treats: pumpkin pie, and green tomato chutney. The chutney recipe can be found on page 154 of the You Grow Girl book. Since the oven was blazing,

It's mid September and sadly most of the container-grown tomato plants on my rooftop are on their last lap. A few green stragglers remain and the vines are starting to yellow and fade. Thankfully I've got another crop still running over at my community garden plot

I've been busy canning and putting up food, so the updates here have been fewer than usual. Anyone notice? After all the labor and love I put into growing my babies, I refuse to let them go to waste. So besides taking baskets to friends, neighbors,

by Gayla Trail Forget shopping. A little botany lesson is all you need for a d.i.y. seed collection. We've even done the work for you and designed lovely seed packets to print out and use. Harvesting and Saving Your Seeds Storing and Testing Seeds Make Decorative Envelopes