What Sparked My Curiosity I found myself standing in the garden in late November with a bag of decade-old seeds, wondering how anything ever managed to grow before humans got involved. If seeds require this much planning and precision — cold stratification, careful spacing, labeled rows — how did entire ecosystems survive without us? The […]
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— type: html-vault-note post: What the Seed Knows created: 2026-04-21 — # html — What the Seed Knows “`html A Bag of Seeds and a Memory I was out in the garden in late fall, holding a handful of poppy seeds from my mother-in-law, Linda. Not a seed packet, but a Ziploc bag full of
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Bare Soil Is an Invitation Bare soil is an invitation. That was one of the first things I learned when I began gardening. If you do not decide what grows there, something else will, usually something stubborn and opportunistic. In my case lately, that has been burdock. When I moved back to this area after
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