Welcome to the new SBCG website
The SBCG website has been thoroughly revamped. We hope this blog format will encourage you to visit the site often and contribute your ideas.
This site is very much under construction, and new posts, links, and functionality will be added until we have it just the way we want it.
So add a comment to this post to let us know what you think about the site.
Awesome new website, Alix!
Alix – well done. Like the new look.
All – question about onion sets – from where have others ordered onion sets/plants?
Hi Ken,
I’ve been getting my onion sets locally. Farmers’ Seed and Supply in Lynchburg has white, yellow, and red sets. I’ve gotten wonderful shallots from them as well. I’ve also gotten sweet onion sets from Mays in Amherst.
Alix
Lookin’ good. I hope we all use this site.
I love the website Alix! Thanks!
And…is it too late to start tomato seedlings? I like your link to the Virginia planting dates, but it might also be useful (for lazy gardeners like me) to have a calendar of rough dates that have worked in the past for this garden.
Hey Jane,
I started my tomatoes and peppers a couple of weeks ago, but I don’t think it’s too late to start. I’m still working on a system that would allow people to submit starting and planting times. Stay tuned!
Alix
Working late at night on a(nother) paper, I found this poem that seems timely. I would put it on a new post, but can’t figure out how to start one. This is from A.R. Ammons’ “Four Motions for the Pea Vines”:
the rhythm is
diffusion and concentration:
in and out:
expansion and
contraction: the unfolding,
furling:…
the rhythm is
out and
in,
diffusion and concentration:
the dry pea from the
ground
expands to vines and leaves,
harvests sun and water
into
baby-white new peas:
the forms that exist
in this rhythm! the whirling
forms!
grief and glory of
this rhythm:
the rhythm is.