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How to start seedlings? In cell pack trays? What size? 72 cells? 128 cells? How about starting seeds for larger plants in 3 1/2” or 4” flower pots so we don’t have to repot the seedlings? How about using those fancy (and expensive) soil blockers? And why not just direct sow seeds in the garden […]

Yesterday I brought a bag of our Celosia seeds with me to the Owen’s Field Airport CSA pickup so I could work on removing the flowers, bits of leaves, and stems from the seeds while I was there. I started swishing the seeds around in the pan and blowing across them to blow away the […]

My name is Michael Frank (Señor Frank to my students). I manage our school garden here at Meadow Glen Elementary School and run our weekly garden club for our students. There are over 200 posts on the blog as of this date. Most were written by me and include updates showing how our school garden […]

Rudy Mancke is the Naturalist in Residence at the University of South Carolina, and he used to be the host of the TV show Nature Scene in South Carolina, a show about all the beautiful natural places here in our state of South Carolina. When I first moved to South Carolina back in 2005, a […]

For Better World Day 2023 the garden club left tomato plants out in the learning commons for students or staff to adopt. If you are one of the people who picked up a tomato plant to grow at home, we hope you decide to help us all learn about your plant and share with us […]