A little winter excavation, and a wish for you
It’s the Winter Solstice, a time when we face the coming cold but also think (dream!) ahead to gardening and growing food as the light returns and the wheel of […]
Tag Archives: nature
The cold of the winter
Now in December we rest and wait for the light to return. We had a beautiful super moon and my camera wouldn’t take a good picture. But while I was […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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