Recently, a bit of a firestorm has arisen in the garden blogging world. It began as one thing, and, as details about that issue came out, led to a bigger, more serious issue. The event that led to this is less important, and the specifics of what happened will, I’m sure, probably come out...
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It’s one thing to show my garden in July, when the tomatoes are going full force and the annuals are all blooming like mad, or even in April, when the slightest hint of color is enough to make me feel like the best gardener ever. (Delusions of self-grandeur are a symptom of long Michigan...
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It’s the day after Halloween. No sign of the Great Pumpkin yet again, and I’m doing my best to resist the 4 huge buckets of candy in the kitchen. Mmmm….Snickers…. The other sign that Halloween has passed us by is the sight of dozens of carved, soggy, perhaps squirrel-chewed Jack O’ Lanterns sitting on...
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We had our first frost last night. My morning walk around the garden was filled with both beauty and melancholy. Beauty, because the entire garden sparkled. Frost edged the serrated leaves of the viburnums, the top of the hay bale and pile of leaves the kids play in, and each and every petal of...
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I usually overlook how vibrant strawberry foliage is in fall. But I was taking a walk through the garden this morning, and noticed these leaves hanging over the side of the new strawberry bed. They’re easily the most vivid color going on in my garden right now. One more reason to love strawberries!
Read more →The more I focus on growing as much of our own food as possible, the more I’m bothered by waste. The bread that stales before we can use it, the vegetable trimmings, that last bit of coffee in the decanter; I’ve found ways to use all of that. But what to do with the...
Read more →A couple of years ago, I wrote about the method I use for drying tomatoes — oven-drying. It’s a really simple method, and one that works for me because air-drying is impossible due to Michigan’s humid summers, and I still can’t justify shelling out a few hundred dollars for a good quality food dehydrator....
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