Over the last couple of days, I’ve removed most of the remaining plants from last fall’s garden. The potatoes are all scrubbed and distributed in my refrigerator and those of a few neighbors. The sugar snap peas I planted in February are still in the ground with zillions of pods just starting to fatten up, [...]
Archive | April, 2010
Potato Surprise
Sometimes it seems like gardening success happens in spite of what you do. I guess it’s only right, a little payback for all those “I don’t know what went wrong” experiences. Last September, when I was shopping for vegetable plants for my winter garden, a nursery employee mentioned that they would be getting in gourmet [...]
My gardening rules
These are a few rules I’ve adopted after 24 years of working on the same small urban garden. None of these are rocket science, or anything new, but they are things I only really grasped after making the same mistakes time and again. NO invasives allowed! I’ve fallen for so many over the years, only [...]
My back yard
When I was in my 20s, my boyfriend and I moved from one house to another at least once a year. There was always a reason — a job change, our rental being sold, or we’d spotted something we liked better. The decision to move usually seemed to be made right after I’d just planted [...]
Grounded, IMBY or something else?
I haven’t really posted since before our Blue Ridge Parkway trip last fall, which I can confidently report was our “best (and only) trip ever” on the Blue Ridge Parkway. (Actually, it was lovely, but the second 100 miles looks very much like the first 100. The third 100 miles is indistinguishable from the second. [...]
