Hugel bed
I keep reading about a permaculture practice called hugel culture. I thought it would be neat to try. My garden is getting a little smaller next year since I’m getting […]
Category Archives: Cooking/Food
More of the magic of the earth
This old basket and I have been together in the garden for a few years. It fits over my arm and gives me both hands free for picking things […]
The shrinking of the garden
Well, we all get old(er.) The bad part is admitting it. OK, I admit it. The garden will be smaller next year. That rough area on the right will be […]
Time to make tomato sauce
I ran out of my tomato sauce in May. That won’t happen again next year. I’ve been taking off tomatoes as they came ripe and blanching, skinning, coring and freezing […]
Groundhogs and bamboo and squash bugs, oh my!
Challenges, gardening challenges! Last fall we thought we had Wilbur living under the garage for the winter, and that was kinda cute and all, and one groundhog doesn’t eat that […]
You can learn so much working in the garden
I have a fenced in area that’s sort of rabbit proof. Other years I used to cover it with cardboard in the fall to keep all sort of extraneous weeds […]
Spring is springing
We had a warm spell in February, then back to normal Pa temps. Now it looks like spring is really coming. Chives are up, and parsley. Some others herbs that […]
Working in the garden….in February.
For anybody who says climate change doesn’t exist, or, worse yet, that it doesn’t matter, you should have seen me the last 2 days working in the garden, at 65 […]
Winter has its blessings too
The earth is brown and gray now. And if you’re a regular reader, you know I don’t like winter, cos it’s cold and dark and long, and I can’t grow garden! […]
The last of the Limas
Oh the last of the garden is always sad, but the time has come for the good earth in Pennsylvania to take a rest. Today I took the tomato plants […]
