Goodbye Community Garden
For a couple of months in the fall and early winter we were running back and forth frequently between our […]
Gardening
The Patience of Kale
By mid-November, I was starting to feel a little bit guilty about the kale. It had been quietly patient, waiting
Eelgrass for the Garden
This past weekend, Ben and I and the boys headed out to collect eelgrass for the garden. Eelgrass looks kind
The Big Planting Weekend, part II
With my thoughts on the less tangible aspects of our big Memorial day planting weekend in my last post, I
The Big Planting Weekend, part I
Memorial Day weekend is always the time that Ben and I do the vast majority of the planting in our
Getting the Gardens Ready!
Last week we began our annual springtime push to get the gardens ready for planting. No matter how much we
Our winter compost experiment
Have you ever been tempted to ignore your compost pile in the winter time because snow made it difficult to
Putting the garden to bed
I got a group email the other day from the coordinator of the community garden where Ben and I have
Picking Green beans in the rain
Can we all agree that overgrown green beans are, shall we say, not so great? This would be precisely
Green beans, a dehydrator, and a decided lack of perfection
The garden is absolutely overflowing with green beans. Last night I found a large handful of them in my purse.