Sometimes it’s hard to let go. This hat had served me well. It kept the sun off my face and marked me as a gardener. It became part of my identity. I wore the hat until it was in tatters. Finally, it was time to say goodbye to one straw hat that had served its […]
We do our best to keep seeds out of the compost pile but something’s always sprouting. Usually it’s some kind of weed. We often see tomatoes. You can’t hardly kill a tomato seed. But recently I noticed a melon vining it’s way over the wire enclosure. Where did it come from? It must have been […]
Whoever said gardening was easy? It might not be immediately obvious, but getting our front-yard kitchen garden to look like this took the better part of the Memorial Day weekend. By the end of it, we were grilling burgers and hot dogs and sipping our gin-and-tonics, but I was bushed. First, I harvested about 10 […]
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