My Poor Garden….

….completely abandoned this summer. I lost all interest in it what with my obsessive, desperate fight for you-know-what, and now that September is knee-deep in leaves, I’ve been looking out the window at the weedy, shambly, out-of-control mess, and feeling despair. In a fitting sort of symbolism, the tomato harvest was ruined by an infestation [...]

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The Garden is Planted

I just love my spinach. It was the first of the veg to come up, and it looks like a poster for itself, sitting there in neat little rows all leafy and green. I can hardly bear the thought of ripping off any of those leaves for salad. Most of the planting is done now, [...]

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I’m Worried…

..about my tomato plants. I planted them two days ago, when it was gorgeously warm and sunny. It is now windy and cold. Last night the temperatures plunged precipitously close to freezing, and I covered them with sheets. They don’t look terribly happy, poor things, and the next few days are forecasted to be cooler [...]

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Team Effort

It took 4 kids 3.5 hours to move 3 yards of soil from the driveway to the newly built raised-bed planter. I helped them at the very beginning, but once it became clear that they were more than capable of doing the work without me, I took the opportunity to transplant some very tall, thin [...]

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The Final Harvest

Goodbye dear garden. See you next spring….

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