quote of the day…

“to forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves…”
–ghandi

you say potato, i say purple potato vine

the great thing about gardening is that there’s a niche for each…
(when i wrote that, i pronounced each to rhyme with niche–try it, it’s a giggler.)
especially at this time of year, i get a lot of questions about vegetable gardens. it’s funny how i can be so obsessed with flower gardening when there is a [...]

eat more dirt

for this dreary, misty, cool thursday–an excerpt from ellen sandbeck’s hip and handy book, eat more dirt:
perhaps the last bastion of true american individuality, mostly unconnected to commercialism, is the american garden. the garden is a wonderful place to experiment, as long as you keep the precept ‘do no harm’ in mind. use your garden [...]

water off an alchemilla leaf

as ray bradbury said, life is “trying things to see if they work.”
yesterday, i read a bit of michael pollan’s third book, second nature. subtitled a gardener’s education, it’s an observations/meditations collection with chapter titles like ‘nature abhors a garden’ and ‘weeds are us.’ the chapter i happened to read last night was ‘green thumb,’ [...]