A few weeks ago Ali and I were sitting on the terrace having coffee. "There's a poem called "The Day Lou Reed Died" in the new New Yorker," said Ali and I snorted derisively. Then I felt like a jerk. Setting aside the fact that I was attempting to look down on someone who'd published …
Author: Garden Correspondent
Gardener, mom, reader, and all round messy person.
Ripening tomatoes
Of course, ripening is ideally not the kind of thing that you have to do to your fruits, but sometimes needs must! I was a little on the late side planting out my tomatoes this year, which is a grave error since if the plants don't get big enough before the heat sets in they …
Reading material
It's December again -- how did that happen? Once the dust had settled after Thanksgiving, I pulled out the Christmas ornaments and the artificial tree ("Next year, let's have a real tree!" said Baki). I can't help but stop and take stock all that's happened over the past year. This time last year, we were …
Making echinacea tincture
We came out to the garden on Friday to the smell of smoke from the chimneys. The weather has finally changed and although it is late in coming, it feels like it happened overnight. Enter preoccupations with long underwear, firewood and lighters. Every year at this time, I tell myself "time to dig up the …
Get stuffed…
I know we did 🙂 Happy Thanksgiving!
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