May 22, 2019 A Gardener's Bedtime Ritual, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Florence Meier Chase, Victor Hugo, Gardentopia, Jan Johnsen, Living Mulch, and the death of Conan Doyle

Summary: Here's a gardener's bedtime ritual this time of year: Use sandpaper or a nail file to nick those nasturtium seeds and soak them overnight; then sow them outside. They grow well in poor soil.  The leaves and flowers are edible and are great in salads. And, if you don't want to plant the nasturtium seed pods, you can always just eat them.  Nasturtiums have been called the poor's man capers.  A true caper is the flower bud of the caper plant, Capparis spinosa; the seedpod is called a caper berry...