What if rather than trying to get the weeds out of your lawn, you could make a lawn out of weeds. Well, wead on, dear weader, and you shall see how. Besides its well-known medicinal properties, the common weed Broadleaf Plantain (Plantago major) is a nutrient powerhouse, and thus gardeners everywhere should incline their eye […]
Category Archives: Uncommon Crops
The Via Negativa of Storage Tomatoes
Via negativa mystics tend to stand out among a crowd by the prominent halos that they wear! Many sages and religious mystics, though their quest be union with Ultimate Reality, end up, even after a lifetime of searching, quite unable to describe the object of their desire. They realize that the divine is so much […]
Exciting, new rooftop introduction
Part of my job, so it seems to me, is to be a novelty agent on the Noble Rot rooftop garden. Sometimes that involves being an agent provocateur as I slyly disregard my chef’s wishes and plant what I think should be planted, and sometimes it is merely being an agent of change, a scourer […]
Eye Candy, Hand Heavy
Caution when opening. Once you go in, you’re not coming out for a long time. The first sentence of the Whole Seed Catalog says, “It’s hard to believe that this is our 18th seed catalog….” Perhaps that is hard for them, but it’s harder for me to believe that this catalog has been out there […]