May 24 2025
Companion planting is one of gardening’s most appealing ideas. Plant basil beside your tomatoes and pests disappear. Add marigolds and nematodes supposedly flee. Tuck in a few herbs and your tomatoes will somehow taste better. Some of those claims have been repeated for generations, but not all of them hold up particularly well when researchers …
Apr 12 2025
A productive home garden does not have to be enormous. A few carefully chosen vegetables can provide fresh food for weeks, save trips to the grocery store, and make even a small yard or patio feel more useful. The best vegetables for a home garden tend to have a few things in common. They are …
Jul 14 2021
the tomato,star of earth, recurrentand fertilestar,displaysits convolutions,its canals,its remarkable amplitudeand abundance,no pit,no husk,no leaves or thorns,the tomato offersits giftof fiery colorand cool completeness. -from Ode to Tomatoes, Pablo Neruda Neruda understood the suggestive majesty of the tomato, that culinary conundrum – both a fruit and a vegetable!, omnipresent and visually intriguing, memorialized as much on Warhol’s soup can as …
