Grandmacore Gardening

Season 7, Episode 13, February 26, 2025

Dee’s Grandma Nita showing off her tomatoes and plants.

This week’s episode is like a hot cup of tea and a warm slice of sourdough bread because Dee and I discussed grandmacore gardening and what it means to us.

My favorite this week is the Lego Field Flowers. I think it was only at Target and Walmart and won’t be around forever.

We chatted about the flowers we think of when we think of Grandma’s garden and reminisced about homegrown vegetables. We don’t have a lot of links but if you like old-fashioned varieties for your flower or vegetable garden, check out Select Seeds, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, or Seed Savers Exchange.

Dee was going to share a pic of her baby nasturtiums, but a mouse ate most of them in the greenhouse. She brought the survivors inside to her seed starting station. Yes, she got some of the lights installed. This pic of ‘Alaska’ variegated nasturtiums from a previous year with have to suffice.

On the bookshelf, Dee and I shared a new book coming out on March 11: Pansies: How to Grow, Reimagine, and Create Beauty with Pansies and Violas by Brenna Estrada (Amazon). We were both excited about it. Thank you to Timber Press for sending us review copies!

Pansies: How to Grow, Reimagine, and Create Beauty with Pansies and Violas by Brenna Estrada (Amazon)

Our dirt was about all the articles out there about the grandmacore trend, like this one: More on the Grandmacore trend.

Down in our rabbit holes, Dee is making gluten-free sourdough bread. One of the cookbooks she is using is Cannelle et Vanille Bakes Simple: A New Way to Bake Gluten-Free by Aran Goyoaga (Amazon). She also tried to tempt me to subscribe to Netflix by talking about the show, La Dolce Villa. Yes, it has a grandmacore connection! On her reading list right now is The Secret War of Julia Child by Diana R. Chambers (Amazon).

Dee’s latest gluten-free sourdough loaves.

I’m still reading Jane Austen at Home (Amazon) by Lucy Worsley and added Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney (Amazon) to my bookshelf this week. That’s in addition to reading more about geraniums, which would fit in nicely in a grandmacore garden.

Do you have some grandmacore gardening ideas to share with us? We’d love to read about them!

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