Last Saturday Bruce was at soccer practice all afternoon. I spent part of the afternoon tending to the plants on the deck. It was time, not only to water, but to trim and rearrange and move pots around. I can mess about at this activity for several hours, which I did. [...]
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So it Grows
Posted in gardening on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Weed by Another Name
Posted in gardening on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
All spring and summer I’ve had an unidentified plant growing in my garden. The plant looked a bit like a shasta daisy, I thought, I hoped. However, I took some to my garden club meeting in May and the ladies were adamant — it was not a daisy. So [...]
How Peachy
Posted in food, gardening on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday we had the first fruits — ah, vegetables — from the garden. Our salad at lunch had the first cucumber and the supper casserole contained the first zucchini. Both were delicious. The bees are busily pollinating the cucumber vines and the bean plants have lots of baby beans. Now [...]
Farmer Stephens and his Wife
Posted in food, gardening on April 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’re putting in a vegetable garden. I’ve had tomatoes in amongst my flowers the past two years, which did little during last year’s drought. This year we’re going whole hog — aah, veggie.
I used to pooh-pooh the idea of raised beds as rather elitist, but not anymore. The flower bed Bruce built [...]
