ilona’s pictures of her spring garden have been an inspiration for me to put color film in the old warhorse minolta, and take some garden pics around the farm …must still develop film and put onto a disc. some folks just stuck on the hard, outdated way % perhaps i can get a few on here so that […]
Artisan asparagus
Photo credit: jasonwebber01 from morguefile.com Early in my “guest” period on this blog, i wrote about my back-killing efforts to plant more asparagus, and the perils of the monsoon rains and mud for weeks, thereafter. some tiny plants made it, but i must re-plant over half the bed. it is getting a bit hotter here, and […]
poem for a friend
a very dear friend’s birthday was yesterday. he sent me this achingly beautiful poemmany years ago. now illness is gradually taking him away from us, and i felt a strongneed to find it and send it back to him now. for me, it creates the same overwhelmingsadness and sense of grieving now, as it did […]
the comment that grew….
my dear friend, so far i have found that the “reality”of someone’s world always showsup in the “better” garden blogs; the ones that will surely go on andenjoy a long and fertile life.they are full of information, interesting stories,shared successes and failures, and those over-the-fence relationshipsthat are so valuable, and often missing in this move-around […]
seeds,seeds, and more seeds….redux
i have been saving seeds for many years. and no, i dont mean faithfully preserving certain varieties of heirloom seeds, mashing and fermenting very ripe fruit-fly fruit, and drying out the pulp…to get those little living treasures.this morning i went seed shopping in my big freezer, and am now sitting amid a lapful of cold […]
dirt#2- McAdditives
i have been making my soil since 1983, here in the piedmont region of georgia. i have tried and often used many ways to add organic nutrition to my soil, without the longterm time-frame in waiting on cover cropping. whatever the size of your garden, there is always time for compost. i usually make a […]
