Garden Stories 
On Wild Plants, Gardening & Saving Seeds(1)
Lately, I feel as though our garden has turned into a battle zone. I’m either drowning Colorado beetle larvae, preventing cutworms, trying to foil cabbage worms or rub off the thousands of eggs they have laid on our growing food. If it is not the countless other pests and diseases trying to take over, it [...]
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The Joys of an Imperfect Garden…
I have an amazing vision for my garden. I dream of lush beds, beans climbing to the heavens, shady apple trees of ancient, unusual stock bending low with the their yield, and colorful baskets of multi-hued tomatoes, just like in the seed catalog pictures. I have Tuscan kale piled high in my arms. I dream [...]
When life gives you lemons…
When you have a tree that spins sunlight into nuggets of raw gold, what else is there to wish for? In some cases you wish for someone else to come and cart the gold away. My son’s speech therapist has an almost embarrassingly fecund Meyer lemon tree practicing its alchemy in her back yard, and [...]
