I love my container plantings.   When I was younger, I use to drag my whole garden around with me from apartment to apartment in containers. These days, I have greatly pared down my container collection, but I still have… Read more ›

My garden has a new resident and I am tickled green (because it would be silly for a gardener to be tickled pink). A garden spider has seen fit to build her sturdy web in a patch of weeds in… Read more ›

I know I have not been posting much, but I have a good reason. It’s because I have not been GARDENING much.   I kid you not that it has rained heavily almost every day since I last bitched about… Read more ›

According to my mother, the last words uttered prior to me emerging into this world were “Oh shit.” As the story goes, my mother had been in labor for near 24 hours. The doctor and nurses where bamboozled.   I was… Read more ›

Right now, I am dreaming of real tomatoes. Real, real tomatoes… not those ping pong balls they pass off as tomatoes at the grocery store. The tomatoes at the grocery store have more in common with a Nerf ball than… Read more ›

Do you see those lovely, lovely zucchini?  Are they not the most lovely zucchini in the whole, wide, freaking world?  They are to me and I will tell you why.  Â  Because I grew them in my very own garden.… Read more ›

We’ve covered the fact that our gardens are essentially a botanical brothel. There is enough flower power sex going on in our yards to make Jenna Jameson blush.   But, there is one kind of plant in the vegetable garden… Read more ›

I pulled my hamstring this past weekend.   Actually, I strained my hamstring last week and choose to ignore it because only sissies let a little thing like pain stop them . Besides, damn it, I had 3 trees that needed… Read more ›

I like spaghetti squash.   My kids like spaghetti squash. We eat spaghetti squash A LOT. So, when the spaghetti squash in the pantry was a little soft, I was surprised. I had only bought this squash 2 weeks ago,… Read more ›