This weekend Rob and I had lots of fun working in our vegetable garden. We weeded, planted, harvested, and generally rejoiced for spring. I was most proud of the weeding we did. We got everything looking so tidy. We kept standing back to admire our …
Last weekend went so smoothly it seemed sort of enchanted. Rob and I got so much done. And yet somehow, magically, we still found time to baby the cats and savor our homegrown citrus and have lots of dorky domestic fun. …
Fall is here in all its glory. We’ve got camellias and sasanquas blooming like crazy, and our beech trees have turned gold. Bright satsumas and lemons hang like ornaments, like Christmas balls. The ageratum has turned ghostly. In the late afternoons the sun gets so …
On Saturday morning I couldn’t wait to get up and get out in the yard. We’d been on vacation, so everything had gone to pot. There was so much to do, it was hard to know where to begin. Rob and I spent the whole …
So far, this has been a really great year for tomatoes. In order to use up the bounty, we’ve been making big buckets of fiery salsa pretty much every weekend. Today we harvested over five pounds of tomatoes, a colorful combination of Park’s Whoppers, Arkansas …
This weekend we did most of our spring vegetable planting. Rob planted 17 tomato plants in brightly colored cages. He planted four Romas, one Arkansas Traveler, one Japanese Black Trifele, one Sweet Baby Girl, one Park’s Whopper, one Red Grape, one Yellow Pear, one Red Brandywine …
Last week, we had our first big freeze of the winter. The weatherman predicted it would get down to 18 degrees on Tuesday night, so that evening Rob and I went out and picked all our kumquats—20 pounds of kumquats—so they wouldn’t be damaged by …
My Meiwa kumquats are ripe. Hooray! I highly recommend this variety. Our tree is tiny, less than four feet tall, but it produces like crazy–and the fruit is so sweet! Seriously, these kumquats are really not sour at all. And they’re so cute and round, …
