Garden glory.
If you have a garden, you know that it yields hair-pulling and frustration, pride and wonder in equal measure—often, all in the same growing season. So I hope you’ll excuse a little bit of the latter …
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New source for garden goodies.
Gardeners and foodies take note: you’ll want to check out Agrarian, the new retail line from the folks at Williams-Sonoma.
Glorious spring.
If I didn’t capture this glorious weather in a post today, then I’d forget how good we have it next year when spring is icky.
Fall gardening: arugula.
On this gloriously sunny and pleasantly cool November 1st, I have two things growing in the garden: garlic, which is poking its little heads up through the bed of leaves it’s mulched with, and arugula. I’m …
An end, and a beginning.
This weekend, I completed two chores in the vegetable garden … and together, they pointed out the wonderful cycle of planting, growing, harvesting, declining and planting that any garden represents. I began to clear out the …
How to cook with: garlic scapes.
I love growing my own garlic. (For details on how to grow garlic from scratch, read here.) It’s brilliantly simple—separate the cloves and stick ’em in the ground. Planting garlic is an enormous act of faith: …
Almanac: April 5.
Spotted yesterday and today on our morning walks with the puppy: The Bradford pears have exploded—there’s no other way to describe the sudden riot of white blooms. And the stink. They smell like feet. The purple …
Almanac: March 23.
Spotted today: a row of cherry trees (edit: plum trees; they’re botanically related, in the Prunus family, though plums bloom first) in bloom up the street; they began showing color practically overnight (definitively within the past …
