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…. are really only lovely and adorable in books. In real life, they are mean things that deserve to be put in paella. Yesterday, I had 6 beautiful, unopened crocus buds. We were looking forward to taking pictures and sketching them this morning. Today, I have 3 crocus blooms, and 3 bitten-off purple stumps. I am not [...] Two of my favorite writers — Rod Dreher and Michael Pollan — talk food. Must read! Some helpful resources: Slow Food USA And information: a YouTube Playlist: Torn From the Land: The story of the take over of American farmers’ land by financial manipulation of world grain, interest, prices. The end result was the acquisition [...] Playing with photo [...] preparing [...] Part 1 is here. Blue (Okame spinach hybrid) out 3/27/08!! – moved to cold frame, + 3 yogurt cups: solanum molangena (Greek Gods), Bot Int Eggplant (Chocolate Underground), sanguisorba minor (french vanilla) Ongoing attempt to reduce the clutter around here…. getting rid of all my favorite gardening catalogs; yes, I have quite the pile. The first part are all companies I’ve shopped from before; Renee’s Garden I ordered from when it was still “Shepherd’s Garden Seeds” which was bought by White Flower Farm. Papa Geno’s I haven’t ordered [...] started 28 January 2008 and succeeding days: Row 1 valeriana officinalis – valerian Row 2 purple top white globe turnip Anne in Oz keeps her hubby healthy with these herby salads. I’ve seen many of these mentioned in Prescription for Nutritional Healing so I’m trying to grow some of them again this year, but I was unsure how exactly to use them fresh. Now I don’t have to wonder, as Anne shows how right [...] I finished up the last of my seeds of the ff: Mentha spicata – Spearmint – Plantation 2006 A note to myself to remember what I’ve got under the ground. I’ll be 40 come spring and I might forget! Anemones coronoria De Caen At the writing class our coach brought a humongous artichoke as our first “subject”. My first thought was “this must have been shipped in from California!” But I wasn’t prepared to write a lengthy piece about fossil fuel and eating local, so I wrote instead on the difficulties of growing artichoke from seed. [...] Seeds, that is, you KNOW it’s time to stop gathering/collecting/trading/buying and start planting. The breakdown: 106 vegetables I will be wintersowing these, so I’m getting my soil and my containers ready. Still have to get that plastic sheet though. How I’m going to fit all of this in our 1/3 of an acre, I have no [...] I’ve got 5 rose bushes that I haven’t bothered to find out the names of (heh, that persistent preposition again) — and now I found a note in my files from way back …. saints’ and Our Lady’s names for roses! Like I need to plan yet another garden… but good for reference, maybe someday [...] I take back what I said about this book. The more I read it, the more I want to plant these veggies! And they’re not that difficult to find after all. I’m now having regrets about leaving behind the plot-ful of Hemerocallis fulva at our old home. Even more regrets knowing I [...] |
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