Happy New Year! As I (once again) try to revive this blog, I am keeping company with what I think is a committee of turkey vultures right outside my window. It’s a bit eerie in an…
As a return from an unplanned hiatus, I’d meant for this post to be all about the things I love most in the fall season. However, winter arrived suddenly yesterday. From all the projections, while the…
It seems hard to believe but it’s time to start seeds indoors – at least some of them. For my Zone 6a garden, the first seeds to go in this year are onions and leeks. The…
Greetings! I am coming to you today with another book review. I recently purchased Homegrown Pantry by Barbara Pleasant. This book was published in 2017 and the subtitle tells us exactly what to expect: A Gardener’s…
That’s my wish for all of us. Greetings and Happy New Year. Is your new year off to a good start? I’m spending some time this weekend enjoying a walk through the garden, and that almost…
Greetings! As fall is kicking into gear, we are heavy in the midst of garden cleanup over here at the woodland garden, like every other gardener in the northern hemisphere probably is at this time of…
Wrapping up a mostly successful vegetable gardening season (that I woefully failed to post about all summer long), I’ve just this week added a few fall perennials. I guess technically, they are just “perennials”. I happen…
Hey there, all my tomato-growing friends! I have a book review for you on what is likely the definitive book on growing tomatoes, for all of us home gardeners at least. As I’m getting my tomato…
Greetings fellow gardeners! While many of us have gardens that are covered under a thick blanket of snow at the moment, it’s seed starting time for some vegetables. If you grow tomatoes from seed, maybe you…
Hello! How’ve you been? Safe and well, I hope. It’s been a long minute since my last post and in case you are still around and wondering… The man and I have had an interesting year.…