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
-Liberty Hyde Bailey
Recent Online Articles:
Extreme Midsummer Perennial Makeovers
Put Up Your Cukes
Healthy Foods for Healthy Kids--Growing Success
Hardy Pricklypear
Nurturing Regional Native Trees
Late Season Native Garden for Wildlife
Recent Blogs:
Great American Food Festival List (A Work in Progress)
Garden Pitfalls of Working Mommyhood
Turning Homegrown Tomatoes into Garden Fresh Salsa
Spring Vegetable Successes 2010
Grow Garlic Grow!
All Kinds of Cucumbers
Cosmos: Simple, Easy, Beautiful Summer Annuals
Three Super Hand Weeding Tools
Top Basils for Pesto
Tips for the Pregnant Gardener
Good Beans to Grow
2010 Vegetable Picks
Upcoming Magazine Articles:
The Fruits of Winter, The Green Scene Magazine
Best In Show! (New Bedding Annuals with Old-Fashioned Appeal), The Old House Journal; Available July 2010!
Perfect Bulb Pairings, The Green Scene
Dahlias, Dahlias, Dahlias!, The American Gardener
Dahlias wane in areas where summers are hot but pick up beautifully later in the season. Spectacular selections like the bicolored cactus dahlia, 'Jessica', just glow in fall.
Extreme Midsummer Perennial Makeovers
Put Up Your Cukes
Healthy Foods for Healthy Kids--Growing Success
Hardy Pricklypear
Nurturing Regional Native Trees
Late Season Native Garden for Wildlife
Recent Blogs:
Great American Food Festival List (A Work in Progress)
Garden Pitfalls of Working Mommyhood
Turning Homegrown Tomatoes into Garden Fresh Salsa
Spring Vegetable Successes 2010
Grow Garlic Grow!
All Kinds of Cucumbers
Cosmos: Simple, Easy, Beautiful Summer Annuals
Three Super Hand Weeding Tools
Top Basils for Pesto
Tips for the Pregnant Gardener
Good Beans to Grow
2010 Vegetable Picks
Upcoming Magazine Articles:
The Fruits of Winter, The Green Scene Magazine
Best In Show! (New Bedding Annuals with Old-Fashioned Appeal), The Old House Journal; Available July 2010!
Perfect Bulb Pairings, The Green Scene
Dahlias, Dahlias, Dahlias!, The American Gardener
Dahlias wane in areas where summers are hot but pick up beautifully later in the season. Spectacular selections like the bicolored cactus dahlia, 'Jessica', just glow in fall.
Late Summer Fare
Three-lobed coneflower (Rudbeckia triloba) is an eastern North American native that produces clouds of little black-eyed Susan flowers in late summer. It's so easy and so beautiful.
The annelino-type pole bean, 'Stortino di Trento', produces lots of small, curved beans with reddish brown streaks and a meaty, delicious flavor.
Grow Beautiful Vegetables
Few acorn squash are as beautiful as 'Festival.' It's both delicious to eat and great for decorating. For fall harvest, I plant my winter squash in June.
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
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
www.YourGardenShow.com
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. It's run by the amazing gardening wonder woman, Ann Mattingly.
Ann Mattingly preparing to plant vegetable seeds for The Delaware Center for Horticulture's Urban Garden (image care of DCH).
Three-lobed coneflower (Rudbeckia triloba) is an eastern North American native that produces clouds of little black-eyed Susan flowers in late summer. It's so easy and so beautiful.
The annelino-type pole bean, 'Stortino di Trento', produces lots of small, curved beans with reddish brown streaks and a meaty, delicious flavor.Grow Beautiful Vegetables
Few acorn squash are as beautiful as 'Festival.' It's both delicious to eat and great for decorating. For fall harvest, I plant my winter squash in June.
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
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
www.YourGardenShow.com
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. It's run by the amazing gardening wonder woman, Ann Mattingly.
Ann Mattingly preparing to plant vegetable seeds for The Delaware Center for Horticulture's Urban Garden (image care of DCH).
