Gardening by Cathy

Look and listen:

You can look at the information provided many ways. Remember our great emblem the Bald Eagle was threatened due to DDT causing the egg shells to be thin and so the birds became very scarce? It took some 20 years for the to make a comeback? Now, finally it is not [...]

Just had our local garden club –member garden walk. We met afterwards and discussed going to conventions and local happenings and such and…I listened. Here is some of what I gleaned from our lengthy conversations.
Ball Seed outside of Chicago is trying something out this year. They are opening their gardens up to the [...]

purple is da bomb. Orange vegetables contain beta carotene, but purple veggies are filled with cancer-fighting anthocyanin compounds.
It turns out that orange carrots, the rage today, were rare several hundred years ago. Of course, who can remember, that is a little far back in our short lifetimes. However, the color of [...]