Category: Gardening

I brought another wheelbarrow full of hay into the garden and had to stop to figure out where to put it. Very cool. All the areas that need it are covered already, so now it’s all bonus mulch. I’ve never had such an abundance because I wasted so much on the paths. Now I keep weed-eating them down to the […]

I got the leaf rake out of the greenhouse to clean up a hill with mulch scattered on it and ended up raking the whole garden. A little breeze is nice, but wind strong enough to blow your mulch around is annoying. It turns out I like the look of freshly raked compost and soil, and the little lines the […]

The other “white powder” in a zip lock bag in my greenhouse is diatomaceous earth. It was a very popular insecticide back in the day because it’s organic. I became disillusioned with it when I learned it is only effective when dry. My garden is never dry so when I sprinkle it on the ground it absorbs moisture from the […]

It appears we exist on a spinning rock, orbiting a burning ball of hydrogen, in a galaxy that is full of spinning rocks moving away from each other. We are merely one of many galaxies that are all moving away from each other. We don’t know how big the universe is, but the condensation of water molecules on any of […]

I found myself picking up a night crawler from the driveway and moving it to higher ground yesterday. I’ve always done this, even at the age of twelve. I used to get a coffee can and collect them from the sidewalks and roadways back when I was a suburbanite. I didn’t know much about their benefit to our planet, but […]

It seems like it takes forever to grow a cauliflower. I know the packet of seeds says they mature in 65 days but walking by them every day makes it feel like two thirds of the summer. To keep the fresh cauliflower pipe line full requires 37,000 acres of planting, far more than I can even imagine. It’s the most […]

I pulled up the cauliflower in the greenhouse to make room for spring planted lettuce, and the white flies caused a blizzard like a snow globe. I don’t know if they like lettuce, but I might have to use a leaf blower on ’em. The other side of the aisle will be a double row of spinach because leafy greens […]