Best Trip Ever

The peas should probably be classified as winter/spring garden plants, but this year’s cool weather has allowed them to linger on and on and on. I love sugar snap peas, but I’m beginning to tire of them! Also, I think I probably should have shopped more carefully for the seeds I used. [...]

I order my tomato plants from a company only 80 miles or so away. I don’t start them from seed because I don’t really have a place indoors to do it, and because I have room for only one or two of each of five or six varieties.
I used to buy them [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]