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I’m getting the weeding done in the garden by doing a patch and then planting it. I had broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and Brussels sprouts in root-bound six packs, and didn’t have time to weed outside the areas they were going. They got planted in assorted rows in two patches because they have the same water requirements. I’ll put the sprinkler […]

Had a prankster visit the garden last night. I found the zip lock bag that I keep my bar soap in shredded. Half the bar is missing and what’s left is full of teeth marks. I don’t find any tracks and it’s never happened before so I don’t know. I saw a grey fox sprinting along the fence line the […]

Another warm sunny day and I begin thinking about getting melons and squash started. I did the first batch of them on February 10th last year and struggled to keep them alive through innumerable freezes and relentless rain. Our last frosts we’re on May 7th, May 18th, and I heard the wind turbine early on May 25th. Needless to say […]

It’s time to pull the mulch back from your artichoke plants because it’s enabling the newly emerging slug population to get a foothold on them. Encircling them with Deadline is always a spring chore for me. I can usually put my cold frames over them to keep the cats from stepping on the bait, but this year they are way […]

I was surprised at how well the Brussels sprouts overwintered and picked a big bowl of them. While cleaning them I discovered that tiny slugs had worked their way up into them and I needed to shred each sprout to remove them. What a disappointment. Threw the whole batch away and reflected on how contrarian Brussels sprouts are in my […]

I had to put my mini greenhouses over the Swiss chard that was coming up from reseeding itself, not because of the cold, but because of the birds. The birds also mowed down the Bloomberg spinach row and ate the broccoli leaves. The broccoli on the other side of the garden is untouched. The birds have eaten everything in the […]

Good news all you pizza lovers. Now that tomatoes have risen on the nutritional scale so has pizza, because tomato sauce counts. If you put onions, peppers, mushrooms and olives on it you get health food instead of junk food. Taco pizza sounds good right now. How can beans, ground meat, cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, onions and corn tortillas be anything […]