Wow, it's been awhile since I've ventured into the virtual lushness that makes up all the garden blogs I use to love. I won't lie, last summer ended up in the crapper. With terrible weather that squelched the yield of even the most experienced gardeners,… more »

This year the garden has been a wreck. It is little and cold comfort that the neighbors are in the same boat. I remember last year thinking how beautiful and bountiful the garden was and how I hoped it wasn't a fluke. And while I do not believe that we a… more »

Dear Grandpa, We've had a lot of rain in the past few days. In fact, one night we got up to find that between midnight and five in the morning we had gotten just over five inches of rain. My little tray of seedlings was full of water and all of their… more »

Time marches on. People come into our lives or we come into theirs. Then they are gone and as the months stretch into years they become more a part of our history than of our present. I was not feeling particularly sad about this year's Memorial Day. Las… more »

Amazingly, it's been a year since I started this blog. I can't believe it. Strange to think that my first real garden is now in the past after spending so many years with it in my far off future. Funny I was just going through some of my old papers and r… more »