Saturday’s mail brought the first of the season’s seed catalogs. And Saturday night it snowed. The snow was just a sugar coated dusting, but it was a reminder that winter is coming—eventually—because it is forecast to be as warm as 59F/15C by next Saturday. But today is gray and very windy and below freezing, a …
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Eat Your Weeds
Chives and catmint blooming in the herb spiral Hello friends, it’s been a minute. When it’s between the garden and sitting down to write a post about the garden, the garden wins every time. Priorities! Everything but for a few still too small to plant out perennials started from seeds is finally planted, which means …
Pumped
Shiny new heat pump Heat pumped that is! Oh friends, I have been so busy with the garden and all the things. Two weeks ago we had a heat pump installed. It was a good time to do it because the contractor wasn’t busy, it was neither cold nor hot outside, and our 25-year-old central …
Energize!
First, special shout out thank you to Andrew and Marcie for their comments regarding politics on my last post. They have served to remind me that I stopped book blogging and started this blog as a way to talk about climate change and politics and all the things that wrap themselves up in our day-to-day …
What Month Is This?
We ended up just getting a light frost Monday and Tuesday, which means only the most sensitive plants were killed. Yesterday I picked a small, ripe tomato and the vine had a new flower on it. Today I picked several cayenne peppers. Friday it was so warm I biked home from work in shorts and …
