I pulled up the landscaping fabric in the large front bed. Nothing interesting is able to grow in the front beds except for where there are cut holes in the […]

I’ve laid down thick layers of leaves around the fig to protect the soil and the plant’s roots. I’m starting to pile on more leaves in the spaces between its […]

I set logs in strategic places in the yard, where the log would either help soil to build up by catching leaf debris, or where a log would slow water […]

Finally, through digital networking, I was able to locate someone in the area with a huge freshly cut pile of logs from a black locust tree. After two trips in […]

Squirrels are everywhere. They’re digging up my gardens, and everyone’s lawns. In this city, where they lack any real predators (foxes, owls, raptors), they are absurdly abundant. I attempted to […]

I was inspecting the front yard to see if any more volunteer roses popped up when I found the body of a wild rabbit under a bush. The rabbit looked […]

I’ve seen these beautiful purple flowers growing outside of an art museum in town. Turns out there is a historical museum that grows them in a small conservatory garden. They […]

Collected close to six pounds of tomatoes. The temps hit 0 Celcius this morning so I scrambled to collect as many tomatoes as possible.