Staring Seeds Indoors

This Friday, my Tribune article is about rainwater harvesting.

Next Friday  or rather Thursday due to Easter, the topic is seed staring indoors, the when and how.

The Gardener's Imperative

For the true gardener there is no gardening season. There is an outdoor period beginning, locally, after the May 24th long weekend and ending usually in late September.

However, in the days, weeks and months between that time there is the indoor gardening season. For some, this consists of taking care of a variety for houseplants, for others this time involves study and reflection, looking through the garden journal, examining what worked in the previous year and what did not. 

Spending time in seed catalogues, dreaming of next years garden and making plans. For others, it is both. I fall into he later category.

My houseplants are only two, an ivy and a Christmas cactus; however, this year I started a bean seed in the kitchen window. At the moment it is approximately 18 inches high.

My point, I must garden or be involved in garden related activities. Gardening is an imperative. It brings me pleasure and challenges and plants make great companions.

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"THE PLANET’s soils are being degraded and lost at an alarming rate as a result of agricultural over-production, poor management, loss of biodiversity and fertility and most worryingly the impacts..." Read more at


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The Soil Daily August 2, 2014

"Soil erosion is the movement of soil by wind or water, and it's through erosion that soil is "lost."

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