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Farmer/Gardener?
A.V. Walters Farmer/Gardener? I’m a gardener. Still, it’s an interesting question and not one so easily answered. I don’t think that it’s just a question of quantity. Measured by quantity alone, I...
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Garden Starts
A.V. Walters Garden Starts I don’t know why I’m surprised by it; it’s the same every year. It’s as though someone pulled the plug and then all the green runs out of the landscape. It starts at the top...
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Orphan Tomatoes
Orphan Tomatoes A.V. Walters Well, we’re behind schedule but things are finally falling into place. You know that the garden is “in,” when the stragglers begin to arrive. I have a reputation for an...
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Spiders and Flies and Cows, Oh My!
Spiders and Flies and Cows, Oh My! A.V. Walters Warning: This blog contains graphic descriptions that may be offensive to sensitive readers. It is that time of year when gardeners, plants-in and...
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Training Tomatoes
Training Tomatoes A.V. Walters Okay, so I lied. While the watchwords of this particular phase of the garden are weed, water and wait, that’s not all that goes on. There are regular, if not daily...
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Lessons from the Garden
Lessons from the Garden A.V. Walters It’s harvest time. One of the strangest things I find about gardening is how many gardeners plant and tend, but never harvest. For me, harvesting is the whole...
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The Last Garden
The Last Garden A.V. Walters It’s hot in the valley. And dry. This has been on odd year. We had heavy rains in November and December—with an absolute deluge the first week of January. And that was it....
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White Poppies
White Poppies RR Edwards Regular California Poppies Regular California Poppies The obsession started the day I noticed an unusual patch of white-petaled flowers. They were among an irregular sea of...
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The Orphan Garden
The Orphan Garden Good Enough A.V. Walters The garden this year is an orphan garden. Though we planted it, and we care for it, it’s not really ours. We didn’t do our usual big production garden. We...
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This Is How It Goes
This Is How It Goes– A.V. Walters– Up north, in the U.P. where my mother lives, folks are getting Lyme disease. These are hearty, out-doorsy people, who spend a lot of time in the woods. Lyme disease...
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Marching Through the Seasons
Marching Through the Seasons A.V. Walters– Still Closed. Most of the country is experiencing Spring, in all its glory. Some, in the northern reaches (like my mum) feel the warmth, see the birds, but...
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Okay, Work With Me Here…
Okay, Work With Me Here… A.V. Walters– The unfortunate placement of this volunteer spruce begs the question. It kicked on at 10:20 in the morning, and it got me thinking. It’s a beautiful day. Clear...
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Learning the Language
Learning the Language… A.V. Walters– I had the best of intentions this spring. We walk most days, and my plan was to try to identify all the new plants as they popped up through the leaf litter in the...
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Autumn Olive
Autumn Olive… A.V. Walters – With olive-like leaves Also known as Russian Olive, the Autumn Olive is considered a pest species. In the want ads of our local newspaper, guys advertise that they’ll pull...
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A Matter of Scale
A Matter of Scale— A.V. Walters— Beautiful? Yes. But look closely at the bumps on the twigs. Rick and I have returned to our Sundays “day off,” in which we spend Sunday afternoons cutting wood up in...
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