Dogs and Garden Pollinators
We spend almost all of our days in the garden once the last snow has melted into the earth. My children and dogs have grown up in this environment, and I think look forward to this season as much as...
View Articlesometimes, it’s best to be barefoot and move the hoses yourself
I have a 1/4 acre garden. Not ginormous by any means, but not small either. When you consider that this garden feeds my entire family of four humans for 6 months out of the year, it kind of puts things...
View ArticleThe secret life of squash & my Georgia O’Keeffe hommage
No secret that I do not like this time of year. It is the ‘blowing shit up’ time of year in my mind, nothing to do with Americas Independence. Lots of garden time, hiking time, and inside listening to...
View Articlegrowing your own tap root …
I’ve lived on four continents and have worked in six countries. Where I am right now for sure does not suck, it is gorgeous, but I seriously doubt that it is my resting place. There have been some...
View Articlethe greedy gardener… that would be me!
I put my seeds in the ground in early spring (which is late April where I live). I had little polite seedlings pop up a few weeks later. We covered them with our makeshift portable greenhouse domes....
View Articleseeds and dogs and and and …
I get so excited in the mornings during gardening season. To water or not? To check the soil or pull weeds? Eat some raspberries when passing by, nibble on some sweet basil, eat some more raspberries...
View Articlea green night …
Sundays are my big work day at our facility, puppy play groups and classes for almost ten hours. Super fun day, lots of love, lots of great work, but not a chance of touching my garden until way after...
View ArticlePhytoremediation here we come!
We found that some of the wood containers in one section of our garden might have been leaching something into our soil and plants that I don’t want to have around. Our garden has been chemical free...
View ArticleSpring means LILACS
We are out and about doing this and that pretty much all day long, and loving every minute. For sureContinue reading
View ArticleWhat you should know about Cheatgrass
Cheat grass, also known as – mean seeds, timothy, foxtails, cheat grass, June grass, and downy brome, is not onlyContinue reading
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