September rolled in and on the second day of the month it was as if someone flipped a switch and made it autumn. Hopefully we’ll get an encore of the nice weather, but given the course of this year so far it is not something I’d put money on. On the weekend I dug up …
Category archives: garden
Garden Update, Part 7
August looms and I was sitting on my deck wondering why about half my carrots seemed to be wilting. On closer inspection, it turned out that a thief was at work. I suspected — and it turned out that I was proven right a day or so later — that a little mouse had found …
Garden Update, Part 6
Gardens are funny in the way that on one day they are potential things, they are spaces about to produce food. The next day, they are abundant and overflowing and it becomes almost impossible to keep up with their bounty. We’re at the “next day” phase. In the last week I’ve eaten more snap peas …
Garden Update, Part 5
It is raining as I write this, but yet I ran outside to snap a few pictures. As the first half of the year begins its final day, July sweeping into view ahead, the vegetable garden has in ten days evolved into a proper patch. Two weeks more of on-again off-again rain and sunshine has …