The grocery store closest to our house and my office is closing in the next week or so. The shelves are mostly bare, and what’s left is deeply discounted. It will leave the city I… [Continue Reading]
Garden trends on track for 2018
When I’m brainstorming ideas for almost any renovation or project in or out of the house, I first head to Houzz and Pinterest to collect ideas that I then go back and do some sifting… [Continue Reading]
VEGGIE GARDEN GOALS
You might have noticed that I didn’t write much about the vegetable garden this year. That’s not because I didn’t grow vegetables, but it wasn’t my best year in the vegetable garden.It’s been my pattern… [Continue Reading]
WHAT TO DO WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF PARSLEY
I grew parsley from seed for the first time this year, and as I was harvesting armloads of it over the weekend, it was a bit of a head-slap moment. It was so easy I… [Continue Reading]
THE POTATO TOWER EXPERIMENT: THE RESULTS
Remember the potato tower experiment? This was a method of growing potatoes I tried in part to get a crop of potatoes without using precious garden space. I also thought they would be easier to… [Continue Reading]
A PERFECT TOMATO EASES THE PAIN OF A LOUSY SUMMER
It’s hard to imagine that there was a time when I had very little interest in growing vegetables. You might not know it by looking at my vegetable garden, which is in a sorry state… [Continue Reading]
BAG IT UP: HOW TO PROTECT FRUIT FROM INSECT ATTACK
I am not growing a Ziploc bag tree, I promise. One of the houses on a garden tour I went to over the weekend was the original home of the super dwarf apple tree in… [Continue Reading]
