A Greener Biener

I haven’t seen an aphid, a slug or a snail, the notorious arch-enemies of spinach, but someone’s been eating my spinach… That’s ok, because the lettuce is so soft and sweet I’m fine to let the mysterious muncher have the majority of the spinach. The pumpkins are promising – A self planted carrot – Cucumbers [...]

Baby Spinach, south garden, May 21, 2010 – Baby lettuce, south garden, May 21, 2010 – Baby mighty oak tree, Acadia’s garden, May 21, 2010 (acorn planted by Kira in April) Baby tomato,  soaking up some front porch sun Baby eggplant, sunny self on porch – Baby squash – Baby rainbow chard, volunteer (self-seeded) in [...]

Sneaking off the couch and hobbling into the back yard I was rewarded with our very first spring salad – And then over to the north garden to see how the rhubarb was behaving– He may have been waving it in the air like he just didn’t care, but I paid him no mind and [...]

It’s hard to tiptoe on the tulips when they are slick with snow– Snow, shmoe, I won’t let it get me down.  The weather changes so fast around here that you might not even notice something very fishy going on in the rhubarb patch.  What, exactly, is this? I’ve had this rhubarb for seven summers [...]

April 12, and our previously perky sprouts have called it quits. All but that one little guy, who I think is an eggplant. Our over-zealous watering took out not only our nice handwritten signs, but much of our crop as well. At least the tomatoes are still hanging in there – Outside things are moving [...]

March is a pyscho. Never mind the whole lion and lamb thing.  It comes in like a fluffy bunny and then just like that turns into a frigid witch and then right back into a kitten. It’s driving me a little batty. March 6, and our good old Northern corner spot is still snowbound. We [...]

When they were finally coaxed down from the trees, he built this beautiful trellis. Hire your local twig collectors and relocators.  This is my crew, whom I highly recommend. They are hard workers who work cheap.  They negotiated the deal, which I gladly accepted — $1 plus a Popsicle each got me an entire twig [...]