July 30, 2016
Choose a three by six plot in your yard that gets sun, choose a spade and lift off the sod, shaking free as much of the soil as you can. Remove larger stones and pile them somewhere nearby so they will remind you to remain steadfast. Add organic compost and fertilizer...
April 24, 2014
Years ago I decided, with permission from the landlord, to take matters into my own hands and create a garden in the little plot of land by the parking lot entrance to my office building. (See my previous blog post from Feb. 14, 2012 to read what happened to it.) Short...
January 19, 2011
I’d put my garden beds to bed mid November last; planting bulbs for the Spring, mulching the mountains of marvelous maple leaves from my neighbors overhanging tree, using them as blankets, tucking everything in nicely with a prayer and a song of farewell. Then, in all...
September 5, 2010
I would grow corn in my garden every year, and I do, whether I ever get to eat any of it or not. Even the crows seem to know that something special is on the way because I hear them screaming about it as they swoop above my kneeling form sowing the hardy dried kernels,...
August 26, 2017