This is one more long update. Life is so full it’s tough to find a moment to sit and write it all down. But here goes… Home-grown salads are a common fare nowadays: lettuce mix, beet “greens,” cherry tomatoes, onions, garlic scape dressing. I could throw in bell peppers too, but I’m letting them mature …
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Raspberries and Other Harvests
Amie and I went to visit our new friends of the Freecycle comfrey, L and S, last week. Their raspberry garden was bursting with plump juicy berries. L helped Amie pick, she is so good with young kids. Amie was in seventh heaven, practically yelling with the fun of it. I chatted and picked and …
First Carrots, and Garlic
No, really. I already harvested carrots. Well, Amie harvested them: No doubt you’ve noticed that these are baby carrots. Baby carrots. I had let that bed go to weeds, and when pulling said weeds today found that carrots have much less purchase on the soil than weeds do, and they too came up. So after …
Riot for Austerity – Month 19-20
Well, it’s again 2 months since I calculated our last riot. I’ll average May and June. Last year’s averages (calculated here) are mentioned as a baseline. I use this calculator. Gasoline. 14.528 gallons per person (pp) in cars + 10 miles pp on public transport. 35 % of the US National Average (Last year’s yearly …
New Pots
I was very happy with how this session’s pots have turned out, especially the glazing. I never seem to have any inspiration when glazing. This time around I went for a common theme: turquoise (which is matte, as I found out last time) overlaid with a clear glaze (which makes the whole thing shiny). Here …
First Tomato
This should have been a joyous day, a glorious day. Instead there was cussing. I don’t often cuss, so it was shocking. What happened? The chipmunks got to the first tomato of the season. THE first tomato. The ICONIC tomato. The one you take a picture of: Its good side Its chipmunk side They also …
My Camera Works Again
Feverfew Vervain Maltese Cross
A Fungal Soil
closer look (notice also the creepy crawly at the bottom – and the weeds):
Flowering, Ripening, Growing
I drive the speed limit and blink even when I’m the only one on the street. I pay my (one) credit card bill, my taxes, my library fines. I smile, I make peace, I don’t gossip or speak ill. But I am no goody two-shoes. I am the most subversive person I know. I grow …
Finished!
Happy Summer! On this hot sunny day what did I do but seek out the two hottest areas of my garden. First, the compost bins. They looked pretty tame, on the surface. Then I stuck in my fork and woosh, the temperature rise was immediately apparent. I persisted, turning, consolidating and sifting out the finished …