The morning glory arbor blew over again last night, sunflowers uprooted and the wheelbarrow is filled with rain water. Hearing the rain pummel the roof was once a welcome sound, but too much of a good thing is devastating. People are helping people across Vermont, dig, rebuild, feed their farm animals, and bring emotional comfort. […]
Butterfly Wisdom
This morning I watched a butterfly lilt across the pond at the base of Equinox Mountain. At first I thought it was a small bird, fluttering in the sky until I looked more closely. I watched the paper-thin wings fight the light southerly wind and could only think how this small creature was not going […]
Flowers in the birdbath
The calendar has moved into August and the pressure is off. Racing to get out to the garden with the wheelbarrow and weed bucket has turned into a leisurely pace of drifting with my camera to capture photos of the showy casa Blanca lilies wrapped up in a cascade of morning glory vines, the bee […]
Kitchen Garden Tour
My artichokes are at their prime, but I can’t pick them. Same with the lettuce, the tomatoes and the cucumbers. Hosting a garden tour in the middle of the summer is pure torture. It’s not that I aim for perfection, an impossible feat when it comes to a vegetable garden, but I would like it […]
Savory Summer Recipes
The best part of growing a kitchen garden is that you don’t have to stop at the supermarket on your way home from work. Instead, you can pick up your harvest basket and pluck lettuce and tomatoes on your way into the house. There is nothing more exciting than harvesting those first ripe tomatoes, eggplants, […]
Garden Smart: a mid-summer plan
It’s mid summer, and time to kick back and enjoy the garden. But the truth is that I am still hunched over filling weed buckets, clipping spent blossoms and flicking Japanese beetles into jars of soapy water (making beetle juice?). And I discovered a half price sale at my favorite garden center, and decided to […]
Listen to your peas
It always takes a little while for me to decide where to plant the peas. There is no doubt about it, the thrill of the first emerald green shoots emerging from the soft soil, is almost as exhilarating as the taste of the sweet pods that will follow in early July. But it never lasts. […]
