Vineyard Gardener
Another beautiful week in garden world. I can’t decide if oriental poppies or ancient peonies are my favorites. I have a Sarah Bernhart peony right...
I know most folks were pretty sour about the cold, rainy Memorial Day weekend. I wasn’t one of them. I was pretty content in full rain gear happily...
I have several young women who work for me at various job sites. Several have traveled around working at organic farms here and abroad. As we were...
Here it is Mother’s Day, and I must say it’s been emotionally challenging today. This is my first one without a mother. Grief has some interesting...
Apparently I have an aversion to following my own advice. I decided to peruse some of my mid-May columns from years past. I was hoping to plagiarize...
The month of May has to get the Academy Award in the garden year. I try to notice particularly nice displays as I drive around and make weekly...
I did a lot of gardening this past week for self protection. I seemed unable to resist the temptation of television or radio news following the...
Just as I prepared to abandon all hope, the tiniest carrot seedlings emerged. It has been more than three weeks since I planted. Both the lettuce and...
Live and rarely ever learn. I complained all week about the wind but went ahead anyway and planted out some teensy seedlings. They had been coming...
Big doings out at Bayes-Norton Farm. I’ve been watching all week and wondering if the garden is being expanded or a if a house is on the way. Those...
Truth be told — I picked the last of the carrots. I had one little section left but they have started growing again. They are covered with little...
The girls in Violet’s dance carpool have been pestering me for a camp-out. I finally relented. We spent the night in the big unheated greenhouse in...
