“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” ~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables I visit the garden after a two-day absence and am awed by the change in such a short time. Some things come in abundance, for others […]
Garden
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
“Gardens are a form of autobiography.” ~ Sydney Eddison Rainbow Swiss chard is one of my favourite things from the garden. I’ve been tucking some away in the freezer and we’re enjoying it regularly in salad these days. It makes a tasty, crunchy, and hearty salad: chopped chard, whatever other veggies are on hand (currently […]
Sunday, August 6, 2017
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” ~ John Lubbock, The Use Of Life I processed fifty pounds of tomatoes yesterday–soup enough to […]
Saturday, August 5, 2017
“Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness from deep amidst the undifferentiated green. To lift a bean plant’s hood of heartshaped leaves and discover a clutch of long slender pods handing underneath could make me catch my […]
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Saturday, July 29, 2017
“What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they’ll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.” ~ Alice Walker We started eating tomatoes again this week. I refuse to buy those facsimiles in the grocery store so we only enjoy tomatoes when […]
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
“It is the still, yellow kind of afternoon when one is apt to get stuck in a dream if one sits very quiet” ~ Dodie Smith I plan to do some of that later: sit quietly on my deck with a book. We are heading back into a long string hot days and I intend to […]
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Monday, July 24, 2017
“Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to […]
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” ~ William Shakespeare I spent a little bit of time in the garden yesterday morning–just long enough to harvest kale, Swiss chard, a couple of cucumbers, a few sunburst squash, and do some watering. I felt slightly nauseous afterward as a result of the smoke blanketing our […]