Save seeds: a backyard gardener’s guide by Kirsten Dirksen on July 26, 2011 One of the best ways to guarantee tasty, hardy, relatively disease-resistant organic, heirloom vegetables is by saving seeds. Instead of …
Scion exchange: how to graft a backyard of fruit by Kirsten Dirksen on December 27, 2010 If it hadn’t been for introduction of grafting, we wouldn’t have domesticated apples or cherries and since these heterosexual fruit …
Heirlooms, hybrids, non-GMO corn & breast of Venus tomatoes by Kirsten Dirksen on December 1, 2010 Heirloom vegetables are big at farmer’s markets, popular among backyard gardeners and now they can even be found in supermarkets, …
