Author: Bob Bauer

I thought it would be fun to make a list of the top ten reasons NOT to garden. I couldn’t do it. All I could come up with is if you’re living on ice. So Arctic and Antarctic people have the only reason not to garden that I could come up with. I could come up with ten reasons why […]

All the rest of the tomatoes ripening in my cardboard box have turned red. Even the small ones. I guess the warmth of the guest room hastened them along. They will be the last ones that I eat like an apple because store bought ones get sliced. Most gardeners know the joy of having an abundance of tomatoes because they […]

I got to plant onion sets yesterday. It was so warm that I worked in my t shirt. The ground had already dried from my watering it three days ago, and the dirt kept falling back in the dibble hole. Usually at this time of year we have our hoses rolled up and stored but this year I have to […]

We have 25 degree nights in the forecast for several days so it’s time to cover the faucets. We have 11 of them, and need to use them all winter long to keep the horse troughs full, so they need to be easy to get to. I wrap them in old rags to insulate them, and cover them with a […]

More than half the tomatoes ripening in the cardboard box have turned red already. Can confirm, not as tasty as vine ripened, but still a treat. It’s like forbidden fruit that nature intended to be decomposing on the ground. It’s interesting that the largest ones ripened to dark red already, the mid sized ones are orange, and the smallest, golf […]

My wife put kale leaves on a cookie sheet and baked them until they were black. As they were cooling on the counter I mentioned that they would make good bat wings for Halloween decorations. She was not amused. The kale leaves are coming back as soon as I pick them but not the Swiss chard. They are taking a […]

I’ve started removing the garden artwork that has accumulated through the years. It’s begun to feel like clutter. There is a round softness to the natural curves of plants and their shadows that is interrupted by the straight lines and foreign material of man made products. For me now, simpler is better. When you’re younger, and raising kids, the garden […]