Jessie Keith
Horticulturist, Garden Writer, Photographer, Kitchen Gardener, Botanist, Mother, Traveler
I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult. 
                                                                                                                                                   -Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Recent Online Articles

Put Up Your Cukes


Fertilizer Basics

Disarming Spring's Ticking Time Bomb Weeds


Hardy Pricklypear



Nurturing Regional Native Trees

Magazine Articles, Past, Present and Future

10 Full-Length articles in Wilder Quarterly

Decorating with Winter Gourds, The Green Scene Magazine

Edible Seeds, The Green Scene Magazine

For the Love of Dahlias, The American Gardener Magazine

Best In Show! (New Bedding Annuals with Old-Fashioned Appeal), The Old House Journal

The Cicadas are Coming, The American Gardener



Favorite Ornamental  Vendors

Annie's Annuals

Beaver Creek Greenhouses

Forest Farm

Fairweather Gardens

Odyssey Bulbs

Select Seeds

Favorite Gardening Sites & Blogs

Finegardening.com

Learn2grow.com

Mo Plants

The Dinner Garden

You Grow Girl

The Garlic Press

YourGardenShow.com

Invasive Species Alerts and Info

Emerald Ash Borer Info


Asian Longhorn Beetle Info


USDA Invasive Species Emerging Issues


National Agricultural Pest Information System Pest Tracker


Invasive and Exotic Species of North America



Pretty Spring Things


Nothing like a spring day at Mount Cuba Center in Greenville, Delaware



Bright Light Swiss chard mix looks as pretty below ground as it does above.



Recent Blogs

The Sweetest Cherry Tomato!



It's Chive Flower Season!


Natural Tick Repellents


Top Italian Basils for Pesto


Book Review: Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way



Best Books for Budding Beekeepers


Choosing Good Garden Seeds for Children

Cultural Step-By-Step: Kohlrabi 'Kolibri'

Best Weeding Tools for All Ages
Seed Starting


Favorite Vegetable Seed Vendors

Baker's Creek Heirloom Seeds

Fedco Seeds
(Cheap & Good!)

Franchi Sementi Italian Seeds

Johnny's Selected Seeds

Pinetree Garden Seeds
(Cheap & Good!)

Renee's Garden

Gardeners Feeding the Hungry


Help Feed the Hungry through Gardening! Support organizations like Plant a Row for the Hungry, The Dinner Garden, The Giving Garden and local community gardens that support area food banks. Volunteers and donations are always needed. The Delaware Center for Horticulture's Urban Farm is my favorite local philanthropic garden to support.


Ann Mattingly preparing to plant vegetable seeds for The Delaware Center for Horticulture's Urban Garden (image care of DCH).

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