Plant plots or die!
This year, I swear, I’ll get all the space I have access to planted. Every year I reclaim a couple more plots from the weeds that rule them, but every year I have to reconcile myself to the fact that...
View ArticleKale feast
A quickie, here, as it's already after eleven. But I did want to show off my kale harvest, centerpiece of tonight's veggies. I've been picking tiny leaves for salad for weeks, and had one other...
View ArticlePlot I: your basic dig and amend situation
This year will go down as the do-or-die digging marathon. Remember those four plots I’ve undertaken to tame and plant this summer? Here it is, mid-July and then some, and I’m still at it. The first of...
View ArticlePlot 2: Next door bindweed plot
Nasal surgery three days back has me feeling like I’ve been punched in the nose AND I’ve got one of those terrible colds that leave you totally stuffed up, except I can’t blow my nose. The purpose is...
View ArticleIntroducing my son, Brook
Would you hire this guy to take care of your garden? Of course you would. Look at the light of responsibility shining in those eyes, the earnest, concentrated furrow in the brow, the hint of humor...
View ArticleTime out
I drafted a post on the plane home on Tuesday, but haven’t had time to finish it, dad nab it. It’s been busy. The day after our return we had dinner with some old friends from out of town, and...
View ArticleTime away
One of my cousin Pamela Lawton's Window Collection paintings. I give you fair warning, this post contains exactly one reference to gardening. There. You can’t say I didn’t warn you. It has three parts:...
View ArticleSummer fruit: strawberries
The strawberries came in with unprecedented abundance this year, and husband Steve once again proved his worth, this time by whipping up batch after batch of shortcake. As my younger son says on...
View ArticleWhat’s wrong with this picture?
That’s what my basket looked like after a harvesting sweep of my legumes yesterday. So what is wrong with this picture? Well, lots of things: it’s slightly out of focus, doesn’t boast especially...
View ArticlePlot 3: The Weedcloth Solution, or, how to get a crop on a weedy plot
Continuing my policy of acquiring plots that offer maximum challenge to the gardener, I have most recently adopted a swath along the alley that runs down the middle of my block. Alleys, by the way, are...
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