April 20, 2020 The Best Indoor Herb Gardens, Kitchen Scrap Gardening, Charles Plumier, Agnes Block, William Bartram, Louise Beebe Wilder, Joan Miró, Gardening Your Front Yard by Tara Nolan, and Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day
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The 7 Best Indoor Herb Gardens by Scarlett James | Bustle
"Fresh herbs are an undeniable delight, even if you don't channel Ina Garten on a daily basis. But they often end up half-used or forgotten in the back of the fridge. The best indoor herb gardenwill bring bold, fresh flavor to your kitchen in just the amount you need."
Garden Shopping in the Produce Aisle
Did you know that you can regrow or grow many items from your produce aisle in the supermarket? It's true.
Two of the many gardening books I brought with me to the cabin when I came up here to quarantine were
Don't Throw It, Grow It!: 68 windowsill plants from kitchen scraps by Deborah Peterson
With seeds being harder and harder to source, these books are a great reminder that we shouldn't be tossing out our kitchen scraps — we can use them to grow!
Right now, thanks to books like these, I'm growing onion, garlic, spring onions, carrots, and even radish greens - all of them from food scraps.
What's more, I'm discovering that the possibilities are really endless. You'll be amazed at all of the options for utilizing pieces and parts of produce from the grocery store to regrow food you never thought possible.
This practice of growing and gardening from produce scraps is a great way to reduce food waste and even help your family to understand the power of gardening and the powerful cycle of growing and harvesting. Botany really is an exciting and wonderful area of science that you can easily study in your own kitchen.
Botanical History On This Day
1646 Charles Plumier, French priest, botanist, and Father of the Fuchsia, was born in Marseille.
1704 Agnes Block, Dutch horticulturist, collector, and the first person to grow a pineapple in Europe, died.
1739 William Bartram, American naturalist and lyrical chronicler of the Southern wilds, was born.
1938 Louise Beebe Wilder, beloved American garden writer and author of Color in My Garden, died.
1893 Joan Miró, the Spanish surrealist whose studio he compared to a “vegetable garden,” was born in Barcelona.
Unearthed Words
A bouquet of springtime reflections from Van Dyke, Wharton, Burroughs, Frost, Twain, Holland, and Rossetti. Read the full collection
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Today's Botanic Spark
2020 A sweet slice of history for National Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day, celebrating the tropical fruit once grown by Agnes Block and beloved in American kitchens ever since.
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