it has been chillygrey- raining and raining for four straight days now. ponds in the pasture hollows, and puddles in my garden. no high-heels for me, but i did pull off a badly-tied tennis shoe in the driveway muddy spot this morning. springtime in georgia has a steady recognizable melody; all turns slowly and surely […]
making dirt #1: green manure
i am a longtime transplant into georgia upper-southern soil. gardening in the deeprich topsoil of ohio has been GREATLY missed, but over the years i have managed torecreate some version of that chocolate-cake dirt here in my gardens. the image ofmaking a cake is a pretty apt one; with the right ingredients, and long hours […]
