A Sense of Place

May 27, 2009

the green green green of hosta in June Recently, I contacted a woman I had known in both high school and college. I was going to be in her neck-of-the-woods and thought it might be fun to reconnect. Of course, it was fun — it was fabulous! We didn’t even hit the brakes, just fell [...]

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I Scream. You Scream. Ice Cream.

May 25, 2009

It’s been several days since I posted anything. Each day, I would think to myself – “this would make a good blog entry,” snap a couple of photos and then be unable to complete the task. In short order, here are some highlights, including my negative thinking….: Returning to my boarding school 35 years later [...]

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Further Transformations

May 12, 2009

May is such a provocative month – it’s steamy hot, then cool, then rainy. I’ve been dodging raindrops for days now. The past three have been cool and breezy and things dried up enough to have a particularly productive day with the once-a-month garden helpers. The farm has been expanded. I stared at the sun [...]

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Farm Report

May 12, 2009

Farm Report – mid-May All the little plants have come out to the patio. Shaded by the maples, they are growing happily. Spent hours Saturday and Sunday tickling apart tomato, eggplant and celeriac seedlings and repotting into cellpacks. Above are three photos of the process. In the first photo, I’ve put some soil in the [...]

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Baking: What To Do When Not Gardening

May 4, 2009

No gardening again today – it’s wet and mushy in the garden beds and gardening would just compact the soil. And I really don’t want to disrupt my beautiful poppy seedlings. They are looking so promising. I’ve lost great patches of self-seeding annual poppies every year due to enthusiastic weeding, or stepping in the beds [...]

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Farm Report

May 2, 2009

It’s early May. It’s been gray and overcast and cool for four days and the perennial gardens are suddenly lush and green. In the newly dubbed “farm”, I’m thinning arugula and Pandero lettuce and having tiny salads with a drop of pistachio oil, and two grains of salt. I add the thinned radishes – perfectly [...]

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Tree Peonies

April 30, 2009

As any gardener knows, occasionally, there is a day in the garden – and just one day – when everything looks really good. These are few and far between, and it takes real discipline to see the beauty and not the weeds. April has been fierce. Biblical rains for days. Then, four days of scorching, [...]

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April 2, 2009

A few years ago I obsessively read all of Elizabeth Lawrence’s books. She was a marvelous garden writer, who kept a plant-lovers garden in Charlotte, NC. One of my favorite of her books was a treatise on the Little Bulbs. (http://www.amazon.com/Little-Bulbs-Tale-Two-Gardens/dp/0822307391/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238716744&sr=1-2 ) Miss Lawrence gardened in the South, so couldn’t grow tulips successfully. I don’t [...]

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Prepping for Passover

March 28, 2009

We’ll host a lot of people for Passover Seder this year. I read the Wikipedia entry for Seder and learned that it was always a holiday where strangers were asked to share in the bounty. Part of the tradition. I remember that from my childhood – my Grandmother Mary would organize a big Seder table, [...]

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