Gardening by Cathy

Today Dora May, Grace, and I visited the Ball Seed Company Gardens. We arrived at 9ish, paid our $5 dollars and went on an hour long tour that seemed like a few minutes. The tour guide was so gracious that she actually planned the tour with respect to alternating sun and shade locations [...]

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 [...]

The island of Tasmania, off the coast of Australia, has grown crops of Pyrethrum for more than 25 years. However, a fungus threatened to end this long career. An international team went over in 1999 to study the life cycle of the disease to find out when it is the most vulnerable. [...]