It’s a bad vegetable garden day. I have good days and bad days and today is a bad day. On the good days, I tell myself to be patient and that everything is growing fine. On bad days, I pretty… Read more ›
Why are there so many songs about rainbows And what’s on the other side? Rainbows are visions, but only illusions. – Kermit the Frog It must be a Jim Henson week. It rained again yesterday. The rain for the past… Read more ›
We had another terrific thunderstorm last night, complete with the brim and brew of rushing cloud and pounding rain. My husband laughed at me because I saw fit during this particular storm to attempt to photograph that instant the rain… Read more ›
I have long thought that Bee Balm looks like a flower version of a Fraggle. Who knows? Maybe the late, great Jim Henson got some of his inspiration from the garden. After all, it was him that coined the phrase… Read more ›
What’s wrong with a blog that is just about me, myself and my little garden. Gardening For Dummies wants more open discussion, “interactivity” between blogs… So fine. Today, let’s go for a little interactivity. I personally find it to be… Read more ›
Last night, I afforded my two younger children a rare treat. I let them stay up late enough to go firefly catching. It wasn’t just for their benefit. I have had a rough week and there are few things more… Read more ›
There have been a few people who have commented on the name of my blog “This Garden is Illegal”. So I thought I would go into why I chose that name. The short version: My garden really is illegal. The… Read more ›
She wandered into the garden sometime over the winter and at first I thought she was gonna be Trouble. Real Trouble. In this garden, plants have a place and she wasn’t in hers. That type of thing makes people notice… Read more ›
As someone who makes a living off my computer, I can honestly say there is not a more stomach turning sound than the quiet click of a laptop one second after you spill a glass of juice on it. And… Read more ›
The Pak-Choi has bolted. It started to bolt just a few days after I planted it in the ground. I had hoped to keep it from bolting by nipping off the buds, but that did not work. I must face… Read more ›
