Brief Food and Gardening Ideas

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Gardening ideas come in shapes you never expect. Would you ever have though of using this for seed starting?

To say that gardening has a thousand variations is a wild understatement — it’s probably somewhere in the hundreds of thousands.  And people are always playing with their food, trying to come up with new ways of preparing it. Over the years our readers have certainly contributed their share of food and gardening ideas. Here is a limited sampling.

Seed Starting Brick

Cora May Howe of Bennington, Vermont sent us an unusual seed starting tip. She places several garden seeds on top of an unglazed brick, and covers them with a small bit of soil. She then puts the brick in a tray of shallow water and sets the whole thing in a suitably dark spot. The brick soaks up moisture gradually to keep the seeds watered.

  • Published on Mar 1, 1983
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