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Archives for March 2011

Pousse Créative: planters for flora and fauna

March 31, 2011 by Andrea Bellamy 9 Comments

Whenever we hear about designing gardens for small spaces, there’s talk about objects that can do double duty, such as benches that also serve as storage. Designers Sébastien Haquet and Thomas Lanthier of Pousse Créative have taken that concept one step further, creating beautiful and functional garden pieces that also provide shelter for birds, cats, […]

Filed Under: Garden Design Tagged With: small space

How to start seeds indoors

March 24, 2011 by Andrea Bellamy 11 Comments

March is prime seed-starting month for many gardeners. Not only can we direct seed (plant outdoors) some of our cool-season veggie crops like arugula, Asian greens, broad beans, corn salad (mache), collards, kale, peas, spinach, and radishes, but we can also start many of our warm-season crops indoors for transplanting out once the weather warms. […]

Filed Under: How To, Veggies & Edibles

Eating your weeds

March 21, 2011 by Andrea Bellamy 8 Comments

Chickweed (Stellaria media) As I was weeding the salad garden yesterday, I found several small clumps of chickweed (Stellaria media). Appropriate that it was in the salad garden, because fresh, young chickweed makes a fabulous addition to a spring salad. Now, I know what some of you are thinking. Oh god. I know where this […]

Filed Under: Green Gardening & Living, Veggies & Edibles

Arugula and radishes: fashionably late to the spring planting party

March 20, 2011 by Andrea Bellamy 4 Comments

Finally! I’ve got some seeds in the ground. Normally I’d have had arugula, peas, radishes, and spinach started weeks ago, but all this travel has kept me away from the garden. I’m also totally disorganized this year (normally I’d have one or two of these filled out, too). Thankfully the weather cooperated this weekend and […]

Filed Under: My garden, Veggies & Edibles

A wearable planter

March 15, 2011 by Andrea Bellamy 3 Comments

A white necklace in an open red box

It’s been a little quiet here at Heavy Petal, which is pretty much the opposite of the rest of my life right now. Where have I been? Not in the garden, that’s for sure! But I have been having fun promoting my book all over the Pacific Northwest. I spoke in Seattle at the Northwest […]

Filed Under: Retail Therapy, Sugar Snaps and Strawberries

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