Rain, Rain, Rain All Day!

Well, it rained pretty much all day today.  It’s about 5:30 now, and we’ve got a little respite.  I took the poor pent up pups outside for some fresh, cool air, though all they did was mope on the porch.  I walked around the garden checking stuff out.  Poor vegetables and fruits need the rain.  [...]

Carrot Crop!

Oh, carrots are divine, you get a dozen for a dime. It’s maaaaaaaagic! ~Bugs Bunny I pulled these out of the garden yesterday.  The very large one on the right actually split pretty well down one side and so went straight into the composter, though the greens went to my worm farm worms. I washed [...]

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

Well, as some of you may know I started an organic garden shortly after Stuart and I moved into the house. The first year was kind of a bust. Lots of rain and a caliche-filled, highly alkaline soil that wasn’t very nutritious. I dug a couple of raised beds, though, with the hope that I [...]

That Bee Problem Hasn’t Gone Away

There’s a column in The New York Times today about the continued disappearance of bees (yes, Colony Collapse Disorder is alive and well). Now I know that with all that is going on in the world today it may be hard to keep in mind the fact that our food system is still very much [...]