Thank you to Ball Horticultural for partnering with me on this post. As always, all words, opinions and plant preferences are my own. I can’t help but feel a bit like a kid in Willy… [Continue Reading]
How to find and deal with tomato hornworms
I’m not much for nighttime gardening, preferring to spend such hours sitting on the deck watching the fireflies, but last week you would have found me in the vegetable garden peering under leaves with a… [Continue Reading]
Garden wins: What went right this year
What can I say about the 2021 garden? I have been putting off thinking about it too much because well, I have regrets, and when we are only given so many summers in this lifetime,… [Continue Reading]
Summer, celebrated with a perfect BLT
I can tell you the exact moment that summer started at my house: 12:27 p.m. September 2. You read that right. That is the moment that summer started. Reports of summer’s death have been greatly… [Continue Reading]
A seed starting plan for hoarders
This started as a post to share what I’m growing from seed this year. What it evolved into is a sordid tale of seed hoarding, a gardener so traumatized by a never-ending winter that she… [Continue Reading]
It’s time to cut your tomato losses
As I got farther and farther behind in planting my vegetable garden I knew this day would come. In fact, it comes every year, but I knew it would be even more dramatic this year,… [Continue Reading]
THE SEED-STARTING TRAIN KEEPS ON CHUGGING
This is the hardest part of growing plants from seed, if you ask me. I started my first seeds at the end of February and I was so into them. I tended them lovingly. I… [Continue Reading]
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