My little bit of autumn gold

One day, the maple tree in the backyard is starting to look a bit worn out, its green faded. The next day, it looks glorious, especially in the morning with the sun full on it. In a few days, it will be all gone, but not yet. Not yet.

The mystery squash have landed

Last night, the real reason I was drawn out to look at the Moon was because my Michael had came in, noting that there were slugs all over one of the mystery squashes. Yes, slugs made those holes on Larry the Squash. Since slugs are so good at detecting when strawberries are sweet, I wonder […]

Go look at the sky with your eyes

Our Moon and Jupiter are best buddies tonight. They’ll be pretty close for the next few nights as well, if you don’t remember to look up tonight. Jupiter has been an especially big and fat and bright dot in the sky lately. Since it’s roughly at the opposite side of the sky to the Sun, […]

Today’s harvest is just a bowl full of collards

Here by popular demand, is …

Harvesting thyme

I swear I cut off huge fistfuls from the thyme plant, but it’s still so massive, it doesn’t look any different. Now the stems are stacked up in the food dryer, and the whole house smells like the best stew ever. There’s plenty more thyme where that came from. Anybody want some thyme?

In the winter garden

Go, baby scallions! Stretch for that light.

There’s still time to plant bulbs

Not only am I wondering how long the scallions will last in the snow, and trying to grow scallions indoors, I planted some bulbs today. In short, I’m making triple sure to have scallions around. The bulbs were a gift, the sort of thing that gardening friends swap among each other. This baggie is holding […]

Tomato in the snow?

After a snowstorm, you expect to see scallions poking out the snow. You’re not even all that surprised to find snapdragons cheerily smiling at you. But a tomato plant should not be looking frisky when a couple inches of wet snow melts away. Nor should you be glimpsing red under the vines. So you can […]

What’s a little rain and slush to a raspberry bush?

What’s a little rain and slush To a hardy soul like a raspberry bush? More raspberries!

These are definitely the last tomatoes

There’s a chance of wet snow tonight, and even though I don’t entirely believe it, that’s still cold enough to tell the last two tomato hangers-on that it’s time to come in. This is nothing like the end of season bowls brimming with green tomatoes that I’ve harvested in the past. Just two. If I […]