Why farmers markets are dangerous

You might be enchanted by something you’ve never seen before, like these darling egg-shaped, green-striped eggplants. She told me they were Brazilian eggplants, which appears to also be called jiló. But the pictures that I find show a solid green. These are striped, like Thai eggplant. They’re almost as pretty as these. So what do […]

A day of good bee hunting

I enjoyed hosting today on the Life-Friendly Garden Tour. Nice people stopped by and let me show off my bees. If you’re interested at all in bees, you know about honeybees going missing. If you want to help honeybees, the best way is to keep a hive. It’s not hard, so they say, and it […]

Sorry to be boring

It’s so nice to finally have a nice enough day to spend some time in the garden, digging and weeding and sweeping. Oh, and I saw a couple of little bees on the mystery plant: a black one and a one with a striped tail. No pictures today, sorry, and not much else to say.

Mystery fruitlet

Okay, a mystery female flower has appeared. With these squashlike flowers, the females have a mini fruit underneath, shaped like the fruit to come. This narrows things down a bit. Round and smooth. Hmmm. Some kind of melon, maybe? I tried planting Sugar Baby watermelons earlier, but that was last year. And the mystery plants […]

Raspberries are back

The fall crop of raspberries is coming in. Maybe if the sun comes out, I can pick berries again.

Fall showers fill the mystery flowers

Just what we need — more rain! It’s so wet the blossoms on the mystery plant are full of water.

Re: 82 pages of A Dance With Dragons

I know lots of people are excited about George R. R. Martin’s latest massive tome, A Dance With Dragons. Not only were there about 220 holds on the book when I requested it from the library, there were still about 200 holds when I picked it up. And yet, after the fight I had with […]

How I started the weekend with Massachusetts beer

Now that Labor Day weekend is nearly over, I’m just barely awake enough to sort out my notes on how I started it: the Mass Brewers Fest Friday night. I was looking forward to it, as we seem to be entering a period when new brewers are popping up all over the place. Some are […]

Come see my bees

Every year in Watertown, we have a Life-Friendly Garden Tour, in which gardeners who don’t use chemicals in their yards open their gardens for you to see. This year, I finally signed up to be a part of it. After all, not using chemicals is pretty important if you want to give the bees a […]

Still writing every day

Either today or tomorrow is the anniversary of when I started keeping up the streak of writing at least a little every day. It doesn’t really matter which day it is, or how long. What matters is that I’m in the midst of sorting out a mound of verbiage that’s at least two novels worth […]