Clik here to view.
8-2 Garden Progress Report on Fertilizer Friday
Clearly, the gladioli have come into their own. Although the Dinner Plate Dahlias are definitely about to up the ante. The prairie natives offer a more subtle beauty. But mostly I am pleased that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fecund August
Of course, there are flowers in the August garden. But the fruits of hard labor are what stand out to me this time of year. And like a woman in the last trimester of her pregnancy, the garden looks...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Generosity Compulsion
If there is one thing that nature isn’t it’s stingy. Can any flower match the ebullient generosity of the sunflower? It’s autumn and the garden is a set table prepared for everyone. The hummingbirds...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Catastrophe: a September Garden Progress Report
There’s nothing quite like coming home from a long, hard day’s work to find a tag on your doorknob from the water department telling you that the water main has ruptured… on *your* side of the meter....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Stoopid Autumn Gardener
1) Cole crops with… wait for it… white flies? 2) Cabbage and broccoli are far tastier to rabbits in the fall than in the spring. I want my hasenpfeffer! 3) If you’re going to grow 14 broccoli plants...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Season for Arboricide
A tree properly topped in autumn… Right around this time of year, landscaping and yard service companies start cruising my neighborhood. They come in search of easy prey: nice middle-class homeowners...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Grandma Juanita’s Turnip Greens and Salt Pork
I’m not fooling: my fall turnip crop is gorgeous. I mean, knock-on-the-neighbor’s-door-and-brag-on-myself gorgeous. I went out to the garden the day before yesterday to thin my root crops out a bit....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Organic Pest Control Series: Links & Synopses
Friends and supporters have requested that I complete a series I began last year on Organic Pest Control. Prior to doing so, I thought I would provide a link to the series so that new readers can...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Rainbow at the Bus Stop
I thought it was spam, and then a scam… A Nigerian prince offering riches beyond my wildest dreams. For a price. The e-mail read: “Dear shopper: You have received this notification from Prairie Moon...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Shade Meadow: Year-One
In the garden, as in life, endings and beginnings are easily confused, one for the other. If you recall, last fall, my front yard ended like this. The garden had been wounded. I was wounded. But...
View Article
