Golden Lady

The planting bed out front has purchased "garden soil" in it. It gets the same kind of wa… Read more In Matters of Dirt, Dirt Matters

I've done some whining on this blog about how difficult keeping things watered here is. Partly … Read more Giving Hugelkultur a try

"What shall I learn of beans or beans of me? I cherish them, I hoe them, early and late I … Read more Beans and other things

That bed of Tristars? I had hoped to gently clip off runners to populate another bed (who doesn… Read more Strawberry Fields Forever

Eric has been Mr. Garden Studmuffin all this week. (Plus he's either made me tea or met me with… Read more Almost Done!

In the middle of shoveling mulch in the back garden,  my crowded hive swarmed. Fortunately, I was t… Read more Got Dramamine?

During a break in the rain today, a friend of mine and I Set up the funky linear cage system I li… Read more Tomato time

What they looked like and why I thought they should be transplanted. (See how weirdly sunny it was?… Read more Once more, with pictures

. . . all over my town. Last night I fell asleep with the last paragraph of "The Dead" in… Read more Rain is General . . .

The month was so dry, and so cold. . . some plants persevered. . . some withered under the conditio… Read more Scenes of Winter