Category Archives: gardening

Organizing seeds last night, I noticed more that are easy to save and common to many gardens. Remember that all seeds saved from your garden are acclimated to your growing conditions. This is very helpful to the plants in subsequent … Continue reading →

Before free … the joy of home grown, fresh picked, so beautiful, so healthy. Today’s brunch. This is the last pickings of chard and parsley, lightly sauteed with a fresh, neighbor’s “girls” egg, adorned with one of the indoor ripening … Continue reading →

It occurred to me as I was tasting the first small batch of just-cooked cranberry beans from the garden that gardening is a visionary long-term project. That’s been the case since Day One from the first woman who planted a … Continue reading →

In addition to flowers, shapes, colors, and scents, Mother Nature created beans! The variety of colors, sizes, and tastes seem as diverse as types of leaves on trees. This season provided a new experience with the beans in my garden: … Continue reading →

How graceful it all is. The peony lies down. Its autumn leaves as beautiful as its anticipated blooms in June. Returning home from the hospital was to enter a frost-completed garden. It’s season complete and me, too.     Beautiful … Continue reading →