Greetings! Hope the new year is treating you well! I am staying warm and preparing to take a seed inventory. In the meantime, the weather was very nice this weekend and I got outside to do a quick virtual garden tour (video below), if you are interested. This is something new I am starting on the blog this year. Kind of as a way to document and also as a way to share our space and garden. The plan is…
2019 garden plans
December 31, 2018Happy New Year! Are you going to ring it in tonight?? I am doing my usual – goal planning. And I have a BUNCH of plans for the garden for 2019. Here they are in black and white: 1. Put a rain barrel into use for the veggie garden. A dear friend gave us a barrel several years back and I am ashamed to say that it is still sitting there, waiting for us to get it going already. This…
like water
October 22, 2017Some more goodness from the Tao te Ching, excerpt from chapter 8 (Stephen Mitchell translation): The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely…
a piece of land
February 27, 2017Planning this year’s garden, I came across a great article from Mother Earth News on asparagus and strawberries as companion plants, here. It’s an oldie, written by John Vivian in 1995, but it still holds up. It’s a fairly lengthy piece, very comprehensive. He opens with a bit of his personal history. I love this: “It is mighty fine to sink your roots and psyche into a piece of land, even if it’s no more than an acre or two…
