heirloom

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Plant Heirloom Flowers to Grow More Vegetables

    If you’d like to add more beauty, fragrance and vegetables to your garden, Chris McLaughlin’s new book is for you. “Growing Heirloom Flowers” is a new approach to local and…

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    Heirloom Harvest Preserves the Beauty of Vegetables

    Year after year vegetable gardeners strive to grow the most colorful vegetables including yellow peppers, purple eggplants, orange pumpkins and ripe-red tomatoes. But after spending time lost among the silvery…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Seed Library Membership Has its Benefits

    I just renewed my membership with the Hudson Valley Seed Library because of this year’s Community Seed offering. As a long-time vegetable gardener and satisfied library patron, I couldn’t resist…

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    A Gardener’s Collectible: The Whole Heirloom Seed Catalog

    Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds has produced the “World’s Largest Seed Catalog” for 2014. The catalog is much more than a list of seeds for sale, it’s like a must-have heirloom…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Grow the Seed that Keeps on Giving

    Have you ever participated in a “One Book, One City” reading program in your town? If so, then you’re familiar with the revamped seed-saving membership program at the Hudson Valley…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Veggie Trends for 2012

    Vegetable gardeners are in for some nice surprises as they get ready for the 2012 gardening season.