The continuous extreme heat and dry conditions this summer are making it really difficult to maintain the garden. Last night though, ...

Most weekends in May have been spent working hard in the garden. The growing season is early this year, so it's a challenge to keep u...

bird's eye view, left side bird's eye view, right side This afternoon began my summer break! I knew that once school was o...

digging the pond, day one Last year I talked about wanting to convert an area of our garden into a bird and butterfly garden. Well thi...

This week I got a roll of film developed and a few shots are from late winter/very early spring, such as the one of the seed starts above...

penstemon One thing I love about having a garden are the surprises, the fun surprises. Not the aphid kind, which we had earlier this spr...

When I need a little quiet I walk through the garden and simply look around. Today I'm sharing three plants from our garden that are blo...

Last year we used the dried okra stalks left in the ground as a natural trellis for the new sugar snaps. That method worked up to a point b...

Spinach. I really do love spinach. And I'm not sure why exactly because on it's own it doesn't carry a lot of noticeable flavor...

seed starts, week one Two weeks ago today I had a couple wisdom teeth pulled and while I lay dozing with a gauze filled mouth, my husband...

I'm not sure why exactly, but I absolutely love walking among the autumn leaves, looking at their shapes and colors, and gathering a f...

Last night in anticipation of autumn's first frost, we covered tomato plants, brought in the potted plants, and harvested all the pep...

When my husband cooks he gets creative, and never tells me what he's making. It's always a surprise. :) Last night he grilled thes...

mornings are cool and dewy again, optimistic, orange and red marigolds nestled with pink zinnias and gomphrena, the mint trails with on...

  According to the calendar, today is the last day of summer. Sigh. And today I finished the last of our garden strawberries that we ha...

This is the first year my husband and I have planted delicata squash. Last year we bought a couple regionally grown squashes from the gro...

This year we expanded our planting space to improve a strip of land behind my studio. It's by the alley, where the trash gets picked ...

This week we've been eating okra almost daily. It is tasty cooked on its own or added to other dishes. A few of our favorite ways to pre...

Usually when August hits, I look around the garden and want more flowers. Most of the ones we planted have naturally run their course. We j...

I have to admit that the sweltering temperatures in recent weeks have greatly diminished my garden time to actually, well, almost nothing. E...