Category Archives: gardening

Yes. A faker. There was a faker in one of the garden beds. Remember this photo? Well, the plant with the yellow flowers is within the tomatillo family, but it’s showy-ness belied its intentions: to crowd everything else out, look … Continue reading →

The first video is a Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly feasting on Echinacea.   Late summer is the time to assess how one’s garden has grown. Plants like peas are in final food bearing and starting to wilt for seed production. Broccoli … Continue reading →

Nights are now consistently above 50F. Yay! Tomatoes will start to ripen. Flowers are popping, on produce plants and on their own. This is my first year growing chamomile for tea. It should self-seed at the end of the season … Continue reading →

We’ve had much needed rain; and that means weeding. Much of the native plants serving  as mulch and food for native pollinators was beginning to set seed, so now the vegetables get their turn! There are five raised beds and … Continue reading →

First: here’s the garlic. All cleaned up and hung to cure. Next: about 8 pounds of onions are cleaned and processed in the fridge. Walking onions (Egyptian onions) do not need to be cured. Next: this is bird pecking, not … Continue reading →