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Design Systems
Sowing seeds in the fall to allow for cold stratification: This is how I’m doing it this year. The weather has warmed up a bit last week. Armed with new potting soil recipes for plants native to this region, I’d mixed and filled up a whole bunch of potting pots with the mixture. I made […]
First Snow / End of the Season
It’s that time of the year when things slow down. We’ve just had our First Snow of the 2024-2025 Winter Season. Happy Halloween. We move indoors, sort thru the saved seeds and label the dried herbs. Pull out my favorite tincture recipes, and make plans for cold stratification of native wildflower seeds.
Multiplying Pineleaf Penstemon
Before/after photos plus the video of the actual act of dividing & multiplying (click on image or link to view– I posted this on Instagram). https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCUvwUyyRyUatDkXSzAGEU4YH0WCbn2yEAb6ak0 I was astonished at how easy and rewarding it was to divide a Pineleaf Penstemon! This video is my first attempt at playing around with a new-to-me video editor […]
Harvesting & Drying
Calendula. Easy to grow. Harvest, and dry.
Raspberries & Blackberries!
What a bumper crop of raspberries we had in July, and now the blackberries are starting!
Dividing, Multiplying, & Harvesting
Wow it’s hot! Summer’s perhaps arriving sooner than expected. Lots of dividing & multiplying. Lots of weeding too. My potting benches are overfull of propagating attempts. Not all make it but so many impressively do and I’m as pleased as Punch can be. Harvesting’s begun too — for nettles, lemon balm, hyssop, comfrey, mugwort, sage, […]
