The Laptop Gardener

Everything You Didn’t Want to Know About Squash – and now find Fascinating!
Introduction
Squash, the native North American vegetable, was cultivated by the Cochise peoples in New Mexico where unearthed remains dated back to 4000 B.C. Squash and corn are two of the oldest sources of food grown in North America.
Today, squash is easy to grow [...]

The National Garden Bureau (NGB) has announced that 2010 is the year of the marigold. So let’s celebrate this great flower.
Marigolds, native to the New World and sacred flower of the Aztecs, journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean twice to travel 3,000 miles north of their center of origin. This lengthy serpentine journey is a testimony [...]