The conversation always goes like this. “I would love to start a garden, but I have a brown thumb.” What an odd saying. Is there another skill that has a pre-made expression for not knowing how to do it? It’s like saying “I’m sorry, I don’t know Mandarin Chinese, I have a brown thumb.” I know I don’t know Mandarin Chinese because I have never taken the time to learn it. I have never read up on the subject or studied the language, that is why I can't speak it. Gardening is a s

The North Georgia Candy Roaster, fancy name Cucurbita Maxima is yet another one of those “light bulb on” type of plants. The type of plant that when you find it, it’s like really, this was here the whole time? Up North, squash is easy. People joke about having so much surplus zucchini that they have to drop it on the neighbor’s porch and run. Down here it is a little more complicated. It’s not that you can’t grow squash here, you can. It just requires a lot of timing and effo