Tag: Gardening

  • What’s plantain good for?

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    It almost feels like cheating somehow, to harvest something I didn’t mean to grow, but I’m all for the volunteer plants.  This past weekend I finished weeding the gardens, and in the process harvested a good amount of plantain – the leafy kind, that is, not the banana-like kind.  I feel like it’s extra important,…

  • Planning the garden

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    So it’s that time of year when thoughts in a young(ish) gardener’s mind turn to planning the garden.  Since my “veggie garden” space is limited, I also try to sneak some medicinals in a couple planters around the yard, or around the perennials in the other “decorative” gardens, or at the edges of the herb…