October 21, 2011
As this year’s garden season comes to a close, I find there are several things I hope we do differently next year. Here are our goals for next summer. Check for ripe produce more regularly. This year so many strawberries … Continue reading
September 22, 2011
Not everything has been peachy-keen in our garden this year. There was the Alium Disaster. Remember last fall (above) when we planted dozens of alium and tulip bulbs? Yeah, well none of them sprouted. (Thank you to our neighborhood gophers … Continue reading
September 13, 2011
We’re had all sorts of animals pop up in our garden over the past three years: turkeys, gophers, frogs, snakes — evidently gopher and garter snakes love our garage, lucky us, and now this snail that we caught helping itself … Continue reading
September 5, 2011
We’ve been waiting for this moment all summer: our blackberry bushes hang heavy with fruit! We picked some blackberries and strawberries from our garden to make a simple, tasty berry sauce — a fruit puree, really — from Mollie Katzen’s … Continue reading
July 19, 2011
You may be wondering, just how many seeds are in one poppy seed pod? Let me tell you, plenty! Behind those adorable little girl fingers, you can see hundreds (!) of seeds from just five (!!!) dried poppy seed pods. … Continue reading
July 14, 2011
Poppies grow rampant here in Northern California. We see the orange, California-native poppies bloom throughout the spring and summer, along roadsides and in fields. Reseeding themselves, they come up year after year. Recently we’ve also spotted the larger, more spectacular, … Continue reading
July 4, 2011
We’re finally feeling the heat here in Sonoma County and I can’t help but look towards fall for cooler weather, the typical season for leaf exploration. But why wait until autumn to learn leaf shapes? The more we practice now, … Continue reading
July 1, 2011
We’re transforming our front flower garden into a drought-tolerant oasis. My actions may sound eco-groovy (and, in part, they are), but I’m not going to lie and say it’s completely altruistic. Watering the garden several times a week takes a … Continue reading
June 24, 2011
Thank you to our friends who participated in our Plant Identification Quiz earlier in the week. Here are the names of the plants, all spotted growing in Sonoma County. Plant 1: AMARANTH Plant 2: FAVA BEAN Plant 3: POMEGRANATE Plant … Continue reading
