I went out to the garden the other morning to find signs of… an intruder! It has rained and some of the footprints were especially deep, like something fairly heavy, and cloven-hoofed. That liked to munch off the tops of my vegetable plants. It was unmistakable, my white-tailed enemies had encroached upon my territory. It was…
Nature
Homegrown Potatoes
The last week or so, I’ve been scouring the Internet for information about potato diseases and pests. What, I wondered, could be causing my potato plants to wilt with leaves eventually turning yellow and brown. Could it be black leg? Blight? Magnesium deficiency? Then I started to do some math and realized that I’d planted…
Time Flies
Remember that nest, and those eggs, belonging to the bird family residing in our garage? Well, after our weekend away, more eggs appeared. And, not long thereafter, we began to see the mother and father bird bringing in bugs for these little baldies… (click on any of these pics to take a closer look) And…
“Gardening is not a rational act.”
Heard a quote today that fits perfectly into my contention that we garden despite the challenges… “Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissing the tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant. In the spring, at the end…