Carrots (Part 2)
Last week's article listed carrot cultivars which performed well when tested at the University of Saskatchewan's Department of Horticulture Science. Regardless of cultivar, carrot seed is small and light, yielding some of the weakest seedlings of ... [... more]
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Seeds for the Soul
 Make Room for Seeds: My bookshelf is small. It currently houses about 30 books. All of them have been carefully culled from a long list of reading material that I have had the pleasure (and often displeasure) of reading over the years. And it seems like [... more]
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Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion Of Seeds And Other Late ...
A wonderful addition to any Thoreauvian's library: Faith in a Seed, a collection of Henry David Thoreau's late nature writings, deserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in the plant sciences or Thoreau's life and work. This volume consists [... more]
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Transformation At The Base
Minding our inner garden.: "Our mind is a field in which every kind of seed is sown--seeds of compassion, joy, and hope, seeds of sorrow, fear, and difficulties," Thich Nhat Hanh writes. "Every day our thoughts, words, and deeds plant new [... more]
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The Nephilim Seed
Edge of your seat thriller: This was my first experience with James Scott Bell. If his other novels are as exciting and fast-paced as this one, then it will definitely not be my last. As a former fan of James Byron Huggins who has been turned off by his [... more]
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The Second Life of Samuel Tyne
Amazon.ca: Esi Edugyan's atmospheric first novel has all the ingredients of a 1970s horror flick. A mild-mannered civil servant inherits a rambling old house in the country from a mysterious uncle. Convinced that this is his second chance, he quits his [... more]
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A Seed Is Sleepy
Gorgeous!: This book is one of the most Beautiful books I have seen in a long time. The words and the pictures are a lovely reminder that Spring will come again! Author: Dianna Aston Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 581.467 EAN: 9780811855204 [... more]
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Basics - Kinds of Plants
Most real seedaholics have pretty much finished sowing perennial and woody plant seeds until late summer begins the process again. However, I'm always off sinc. I tend to do things when I have the time, not when I'm supposed to. As seed is on my ... [... more]
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A Must Have Book for the Beginning or Experienced Gardener
Garden Flowers from Seed is a must have book for new and experienced gardeners alike. Reading this text is like sitting down with two world famous gardeners and listening in on their conversation as they begin seeds for their next ... [... more]
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Let 'Em Sprout: Starting Seeds
The new millennium is the perfect time to think about beginnings. And a seed is the ultimate beginning. Why not get a jump on the spring garden season by starting seeds indoors? Even though we're blessed with an extraordinarily long growing ... [... more]
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Sunflowers for the Garden and Kitchen
Sunflowers are popular garden flowers. The seed is also useful as a food product for humans and birds and other small critters. Sunflowers towering overhead are one of the stars of a late summer-early fall garden. Seeing acre upon acre of ... [... more]
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New Houseplants from Seed
Most people acquire houseplants as gifts either as whole plants or in the form of slips for rooting. Commercial producers start houseplants from seed - and you can do the same. Starting them from seed is an easy, economical and satisfying way to ... [... more]
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