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Edible plant of the month

Chives are a very easy to grow virtually anywhere, are perennial, and make a nice addition to countless dishes - from salads to soups and meals... as well as of course the baked potato. The pink-purple flowers are an added bonus, and come a couple of times a year.(more...)

Flower of the month

The Freesia is a popular garden plant with a strong perfume which naturalizes easily in frost-free areas. Grown from corms or seed, these plants can do well indoors in pots in a windowsill or in the garden, dug up each winter in colder areas. Flowers range from red, orange, yellow, and white to purple, including multicolors, and come in single or double forms.(more...)

Did you know...

...that chocolate was the first non-alcoholic social beverage in early modern European cuisine?
...that maize was the staple of Aztec cuisine, and that maguey worms, spirulina and corn smut were popular Aztec foods?
...that Thrud the Barbarian, a comic character parodying Conan the Barbarian, has the intelligence of a garden snail?

Gardening news

Plants.am tops 3,000 pages!

1 Jan 2008

The wiki is planted, and ready to grow. Importing content and adding new materials contines. (more...)

Spring arrives

25 March 2008

Planting of vegetables, annuals, bulbs, bare root plants and everything else begins in the Northern Hemisphere. (more...)

Daylight savings in the U.S.

March 2008

Most American clocks will spring forward one hour at 02:00 AM on March 11, 2007 and will end November, 2008. (more...)