Update: container gardens
Between April and November, magazines likes Southern Living and Better Homes and Gardens have covers that make me feel as insecure now as fashion magazines did…
Container lettuce
Miss Pax is a skeptic of container vegetable gardens. Can you tell? She probably inherited it from me. I have no justifiable excuse for this. There’s…
Damn you, garden
I quit. I quit, I quit, I quit. I am done. Done. I’m no good. It’s too frustrating. And this summer has been the worst. First…
Food 52: Zucchini Fritters
I wish I was clever enough to invent my own recipes, but I’m not. I am, however, clever enough to take pretty good pictures of the…
Watercress
Jon came home the other night with a fogged up plastic bag slung over his shoulder like some hobo on the run. “See what I got…
Much at stake
I (stupidly) forgot to take any photographs of my rye winter cover crop before Jon tilled my garden for spring planting, but it was impressive. Supposedly,…
Seed starting made simple
Right. It actually is pretty stupidly dead simple. Buy seeds, find/make a starter, plant, give light, and wait. I probably should’ve started some of my seeds…
Everything hungry
In the tail end of winter, we got one last snowfall. It was weeks ago, now, but I still feel the chill. It touches everything, every…
As local as it gets
In some other phantom life, I’d be a vegan. I don’t have strong feelings about animal rights (sorry!), but I do believe that there are significant…
More on medicating cows, especially calves
I wrote about this in an earlier post, but here’s the thing: If you’ve never spent time around a cattle operation but walk around spouting rhetoric…
the flying farmers 