A friend asked me on the phone what we're eating from the garden lately, so I was moved to take few snaps while I was out weeding and manuring yesterday. One of the most productive beds at the moment is this keyhole bed with salad material on one side and then brassicas (mostly bok choy …
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Rained out
It was rainy on Friday, and since I had the car and was going to be driving everyone back to the garden, we decided that it might be better to see how things looked on Saturday. It was pretty demoralizing, so when we awoke to clearer weather on Saturday morning, I wasted no time in …
Forgotten pleasure
Every weekend since she's gotten here, my mother has commented on how lucky I am to have the garden to return to after a week in the city. I had been looking at the whole arrangement differently, seeing it more as an exile from the garden. Last weekend, I decided to try on my mother's …
Meet Max
A few years back, I was looking at the Seeds of Change seed catalog, choosing seeds for the following year. I was looking at the perennial flower seed section, out of deference to Ali’s perennial preference, and was surprised to find a sunflower listed there. Maximillian sunflowers (Helianthus Maximilianii), the catalog promised, come back in …
11 pm 11/9/11
I don't know much about palm reading, but I have noticed that my life line is about a third the size of anyone else's that I've seen. This used to make me nervous, and then I read somewhere that this can mean that one's path in life is not certain. I like the thought of …
Garden Correspondent 