49 little seedlings all in a row (well, a square), happy, growing and…nameless. Well, maybe not nameless, per se. They started out with names. Oddball names like “Japanese Black Trifele” and “Cosmonaut Volkov”. Names that I had found amusing and,… Read more ›

It is that time of year (Finally!). It is time to pull out the Tupperware container from the vegetable drawer in the refrigerator (I have two, one for seeds and one for actual vegetables) and plan what will be going… Read more ›

For the first time in my gardening life, I have managed t clean out the vegetable beds BEFORE the snow started to fall. Which leaves me with an interesting dilemma. What do I do with the beds since there are… Read more ›

The fortuitous beauty of last weekend allowed me to clear out half of my vegetable garden. Part of me really wanted to keep the tomato still planted, but the other side of me said “What the hell are you thinking,… Read more ›

This year I grew about half of my tomatoes up strings and now that the season is just about over, I have had several people ask me how the system worked for me. Does it say enough that I will… Read more ›

Whew… The past two weeks have been just amazingly overwhelming. Children off to school, crazy schedules, weddings, anniversaries, cars breaking down and of course Cleveland weather threatening to destroy the garden in preparation for yet another winter. All in all,… Read more ›

Ugh. Ugh. Double Ugh. Damn tomatoes. Damn Green Tomatoes. I was certain when little baby tomatoes started popping up all over the place (weeks and weeks ago) that I would be in the tomatoes in no time. Obviously the Midwestern… Read more ›

I have a tomato. Naner-naner-boo-boo. (And I don’t want to hear it from all you warm weather people who had tomatoes like in March or some other M month. You don’t count. You have freakish weather as far as I… Read more ›

Officially, summer does not start for another two weeks, but if you are a kid or you happen to have one or two (or a few) of the little buggers, chances are summer started for you this week. School’s out,… Read more ›

I think the stars were thinking when they decided the day I would be born. They took one look at my genetic code and said “That there is a human who will need lots of extra gardening related gifts right… Read more ›