A memory from childhood stands out: Playing in the garden and running smack into a garden spider’s web. Well, not actually into the web, but pulling up just short, like in a cartoon with heels dug into the dirt and a screeeeech! And finding myself looking right into the eyes of the biggest spider I’d […]
Managing a garden for food tests my ability to walk and chew gum and the same time. I can’t decide whether this is more like playing at air traffic controller or valet parking attendant. It’s just not as simple as tossing a few seeds in the ground and waiting for dinner to appear. Vegetables mature […]
My garden journal tells me it was May 1 that I planted my bed of cucumbers, onions and Italian “striata” squash. I also planted edamame, or soy beans, for the first time. We pulled those plants weeks ago and blanched the beans, freezing most of them for later. Yesterday was time to dig up the […]
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