I especially like this picture because the barley is growing very happily, at least to my relatively untrained eye. I can grow a little bit of grain, even if it’s […]

For some unknown reason, the city smells like animal manure, or treated mulch. I can only guess this is due to rain runoff since it’s the season for mulching. Although […]

For the last two weeks, an injured robin, whom I decided to call Popeye, has been hopping around in the bushes of the front yard, with its left wing out, […]

Clover that overwintered in the garden beds are in full force and growing like crazy. They were struggling last year. I love to see clover flourishing. Since I’ve found out […]

I finished planting for the day just ten minutes before a rainstorm tore through the area. I put a goumi, nanking cherry, and black currant in a small group on […]

Far left: Russian heirloom apple Left, white tag: heirloom pomegranate Center bottom: Nanking cherry Top right, red tag: Heirloom Tayberry Right, yellow tag: Goumi (fruits and fixes nitrogen) I am […]

Six bare-root grape vines arrived Friday along with an heirloom apple tree and an Osborne Prolific fig. Six grape vines are too many for me, but they were at a […]