Monthly Archives: May 2010

Hey Dee and Indy, I know Dee is blazing a trail to the OuterBanks. Indy is mowing and glowing in her garden. She was totally guilty of EGG (egregious garden gloating) this week – she got all uppity and posted … Continue reading →

Gardening 365 – Day 151 is a glorious day as its the second week of our CSA (Community Supported Ag) subscription. Each week, Farmer Casey, gardener extraordinaire and her helper, Lori, bring the goods to the pickup place, and we … Continue reading →

Read this: Gardeners are among the world’s most charming snobs. Rightly so: As with music and mathematics, the more you know, the more elegant your work. Erudition is valued, and so is a smattering of pretension. If you are a … Continue reading →

Friends, foes and countrymen, today we make up for the time lost last weekend when we spent the day helplessly and woefully watching the snow blanket our beloved gardens. Today I report on days 147, 148 and 149 in one … Continue reading →

Dee and Carol, What can I say? I am seldom at a loss for words, but the snow and rain and wind and hail on Satruday, well, left me speechless. SNOW. ON. THE. GARDEN. I had just started putting out … Continue reading →

And then there was juice. Quarts of beautiful sunset colored juice. First batch made the old fashioned way, by stewing the rhu and pressing through a strainer. Then, oh wonder of wonders, I remembered being served this fine elixir of … Continue reading →

When life gives you rhubarb, you make rhubarb juice. I scored BIG today, found a dealersupplier of rhubarb through my pal Casey, of the Garden of Earthly Delights.Earthly Delights. Yessirree BOB! It all comes full circle doesn’t it? I handed … Continue reading →

Where is my “rolling on the floor laughing” emoticon when I really need it? We are not supposed to plant tender annuals until the snow is off Shafer Butte. HAHAHAH! In the upper right corner of the photo: Shafer Butte. … Continue reading →

This is the kind of thing you find yourself doing when its pouring down rain. In the desert. When you should be planting your tomatoes on a nice spring day.

Friends and readers, I don’t recall the last time it stayed this cold and this wet in Boise. (Well, we had a very wet spring, say, 4 years ago.) It caused giant shade trees to just let go and tip … Continue reading →