We don’t normally let our vegetable garden go completely to seed, but this has been a particularly wet spring. Not many opportunities to perform the usual garden cleanup. The rhubarb and arugula and collards have been putting on quite a show. Some of the leftover radishes have become small trees. The parsnips and burdock that […]
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This time of year the rhubarb plants in our garden are producing tremendous spikes of tiny white flowers. In the past, we’ve cut the flower stems before they get to this stage, redirecting the plant’s energy to its roots. But these plants are in their third year, so we are less concerned about the roots. […]
I miss my morning walks in Maine. Two miles each way along back roads out of South Freeport. The roadsides were thick with wild flowers: Queen Anne’s lace, goldenrod, purple loosestrife, buttercups, black-eyed Susan’s. Gold finches flitted in the dense branches of an apple tree. Amidst the low din of bird sounds, the mechanical trill […]
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