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  • The 100-Species Challenge

    Someone I was recently reading (I cannot remember who--Berry? Wirzba?) lamented the decline of local knowledge among modern westerners. "Most people," whoever-it-was said, "cannot recognize even a hundred plant species…

  • Saturday Morning Stroll Through the Gardens

    No pictures this morning. It's too hot, and the view is not that impressive anyway.It's been a weird spring, but summer is here, full tilt, and so the spring crops have to go. The broccoli went to seed a little early, …

  • Friday Food Festival: Cruciferous Edition

    So, my cabbage is almost ready. I'll have about eight heads in a week or so. That's, uh, a lot of cabbage.Plus, my CSA has been including a head or two of cabbage in the last three boxes. I'm in dire need of suggestio…

  • Saturday Morning Stroll

    There have been a few additions to my garden this week, some of which it has never seen before.I've added a couple of gardenia bushes. We shall see if they survive. The back fence gets a good bit of morning sun, but be…

  • Saturday Morning Stroll

    Things are looking perkier and perkier in the garden this week.My mini roses are now in bloom, having survived the merciless destruction last summer that came from certain basketballers not noticing that there were plant…

  • Saturday Morning Stroll

    My veggie patch was feeling a little hurt by all the blog time going to the flowers last week. So I'm giving it all the love this week.(What my veggies don't realize is that they're my real favorites. I know. Mamas sh…

  • Saturday Morning Stroll

    I'm starting really, really, really to like my yard.When we bought the house, its entire floral output consisted of azaleas and rhododendrons, with a few half-hearted daffodils in the spring.I've never really cared for r…

  • Friday Food Festival

    A bumper butternut crop!I love butternut squash. Our three little squash vines put out a moderately respectable quantity of fruit, the first part of which we enjoyed this week.My favorite thing to do with butternut squa…

  • Project 365

    Dear Nicolas--Guess what!!I was eating breakfast early this morning. I was staring out the window--not looking at anything, just sort of spacing--when all of a sudden, I saw something.Can you guess what it was?I saw you…

  • Project 365--Garden Update Edition

    I took Isaac outside to help me garden this morning. He thought playing with the camera was much more fun.Uh-huh.Anyway, he documented our one really successful crop--butternut squash--and the presence of an interesting…

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