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 […]
Who needs to dress up for Halloween………
When you already have a perfectly good black cat outfit all year round? This lovely girl allows me to live with her. I am the pet human who brings home […]
Small town America again
Now what could that be………..pretty colors…what, they look like folding chairs? Yes, folding chairs and chairs of other kinds laid out on the sidewalk all up and down our downtown […]
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 […]
Pink mums on the hill are worth waiting for
It’s always hard to admit it’s time to dismantle the garden: take down tomato plants and bean plants off the pergola, put cute lawn ornaments in the garage for the […]
Where there was bamboo…………
Now there is grass. The saga of the bamboo problems has been difficult and gone on throughout the summer. I wrote an early blog about the birds in the bamboo, […]
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 […]
Not all weeds are bad things
Sometimes they’re just interesting volunteers. There’s an easement at the edge of the alley, which belongs to the boro. Mine to tend to, theirs to dig up if they ever […]
A wonderful diversion, when we needed it
We are living in a world of such chaos. Devastating hurricanes and fires, threats of war that could change life forever. And that’s just in our country. The same issues […]
Poor little mouse
You never know what you might discover in the garden. I just disrupted someone’s transportation system, and life! I had put weed cloth and cardboard down in an area of […]
Sarasin's thoughts....... 