Hmm, coming home to the Piedmont, I just want to run directly into the house. The garden, front and back, is overgrown.The front meadow is overridden with common milkweed and river oats (and needs a good bushwacking), there are weedy edges everywhere, and my "main" vegetable garden is full of weedy summer annuals, happy for a respite from the gardener, I guess.I hardly want to venture forth. ...
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Monday, 18 August 2014
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Greens and clear mountains
A quick trip "up the hill" for a meeting found me admiring the clear view of the mountains and a lovely sunset.late winter greens from a previous yearA bonus from this trip was collecting greens (arugula, mustards, kale and turnip greens) from my unprotected raised beds. It's rather remarkable how they've...
Sunday, 13 January 2013
Arugula
My arugula patches have sailed through the winter, so far, both here in the Piedmont and in the mountains. Of course, the winter has been mild! (It was 70° F this afternoon - peculiar).I had the idea that arugula's frost tolerance was more like "normal" lettuce (not Winter Density or North Pole or Arctic King), and so it's been a revelation to have these flourishing patches -- happily, it's the one...