Tag: Gardening
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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,…
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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…