I always forget how busy this time of year is in the garden. The season is definitely changing—shorter days, a different quality of light, a new smell to the air, and cooler nights even though days are sometimes still pretty warm. In the “old days” our average first frost date was October 8th, these days …
Category: Gardening
Garden Gone Feral
Part of the feral garden It is the time of the season when the garden has gone feral, relieving me of all illusions that I ever had any control over anything. At first I feel horror, what sort of terrible gardener am I to allow such wanton wildness? The glossy pages of a garden magazine …
Reading and Gardening
Morning glories behind my sun scorched honeyberry I got a second COVID booster Friday afternoon and I expected the side effects would be very much like the last booster—sore arm, headache, and really tired for about 36 hours. So I was super surprised that after the headache I got vertigo. It wasn’t bad. As long …
Always a Beginner
For all the years I have grown a garden, at home when I was a kid, on a sunny balcony in containers, in my own little slice of urban yard, I have learned a lot, mostly by trial and error but also through reading and talking to people. And I know there is so much …
Now We’re Cookin’!
Two years ago James and I decided to replace our gas range with an electric one. The gas range was 20-years-old and the control panel was cracked and wearing out. But then COVID struck and no way were we going to have someone in our house. So we waited. The cracked timer button broke. The …
