The items on my want list will either help to expand my outdoor garden or my virtual garden of websites. I always like surprises (who doesn’t) so if you feel so inclined to donate one or more of these items…
Non Garden Items for Trade
There is so much available in each of the categories below that there isn’t enough room here to list each individual item. Ask and I might just have that for which you are looking. In regards to clothing we have…
Plants and Seeds for Trade
Plants for Trade Irises, Yellow with Rust Colored Throat (corms) Irises, Yellow (corms) Irises, Traditional Lilac color (corms) Seeds for Trade (for number of seeds per trade please download the list – Seed Trade List for SASBE) The Excel formatted…
Harvesting Seeds from Yummy Tomatoes
Anyone that has ever eaten a tomato should know where the seeds are. Each fruit contains dozens, maybe even hundreds, of seeds depending on the variety and size. Choose a ripe tomato that you are going to use to cook…
To Harvest or Not To Harvest a Stone Fruit Pit
Fruit such as peaches, plums and nectarines are considered stone fruits. These are easy to collect since you just eat or cut away the fruit, pull out the stone, wash it, let it dry and voila – a seed. One…
Harvesting Hardy Hosta Seeds
I was very curious to know how to start hosta from seed, but everywhere I read said that it was not commonly done since the seeds are not always produced. Turns out that one variety of the hostas I collected…
Harvesting Seeds from Pretty Little Dianthus
This year I had three varieties of dianthus growing in my garden: Sweet William, Spangled Star and a Neon variety. Like the daylily, once the bloom expires a pod behind the bloom begins to swell with seeds. Allow the pod…
Harvesting Daylily Seeds
I discovered that daylilies are one of the easiest flowers from which to collect seeds. After the flowers have bloomed and died back the portion just behind the bloom begins to swell and form a pod. The pod starts out…
Harvest a Peck of Pepper Seeds!
These are easy, but be careful with the hot varieties. The capsicum in the pepper that makes them hot can make your life miserable if you get it on your face and can even make the tips of your fingers…
Perennials, Plant Specific Information, Propagation, The Garden, Trees, Shrubs & Hedges, Vegetable Gardening
Harvesting an Avocado Pit
When the avocado fruit has turned black and is ready to eat you can remove the seed. Take a knife and half the fruit from stem end to bottom twisting gently to separate the halves from each other and the…
Storing Seeds
Every gardener has a different way of storing seeds. Some like plastic baggies others like paper envelopes. Personally, I like the paper envelopes since they don’t retain as much moisture and keep the possibility of mold to a minimum. Look…
Changing purpose of blogs
I’ve changed the headline of my site from Earthformed Garden to We Are Earthformed. This is in an effort to make blog.earthformed.com more of my personal views blog. The site garden.earthformed.com will then become my gardening and landscaping site. Earthformed.com…
Earthformed family of blogs, 1
I’ve been working on this blog for a couple of weeks now and am finding some really cool plugins and widgets on WordPress.org. Currently, I am working on implementing a hack I found on their site that will allow me…
Lull in the sowing process
There has been a bit of a lull in the sowing process lately. I’ve been trying to fly under the “husband radar”. All my tools and seeds got put in a cabinet out of sight. Hmmm. Could this be a…
Welcome to Earthformed
Thank you for joining me on this journey of the Earth. Ever since I was a teenager I have enjoyed gardening. My sophomore year in high school I was home schooled and one project was to take care of a…
Yay for snow!
What? You may be asking, but when you have winter sown seeds precipitation, especially snow is a welcome occurrence. Just because I set the little greenhouses outside doesn’t mean I don’t have to keep them from dehydrating. The snow is…
Breaking free of cabin fever!
February 12, 2008 is the date I will remember as the start of my winter sowing experiment. I’ve spent most of my “free” time – time in front of the TV or sick time – making mini greenhouses for a…
January Heat Wave in Zone 5a
 1/10/2008 The new year is here and things are strange. Strange, you ask? Here in zone 5a in early January we typically have a few inches of snow on the ground, chilling winds and salt trucks around every corner.…
Harvesting lettuce in December?
 11/29/2007 Here it is the last week of November and still little sign of snow. That is very odd for this time of year in this area. The Italian parsley that I have growing in a container outside is…
Spring Hill has me yearning for spring already
 11/9/2007 The Spring Hill catalog really is enjoyable to look at (I just realized it’s an old, old one from Spring 2005). I have not as yet had the privilege or the money to buy from them, but the…
The first fall snow and still in the garden :-)
 11/6/2007 Incredibly, it snowed today. It was just a light dusting, but just enough to remind you that winter is just around the corner. It has been so unseasonably warm in NW Ohio that I’ve waffled so much, maybe…
