04/30/2010 - Historical Wisteria
All the wisteria here is blooming now, and it’s fairly spectacular.

04/23/2010 - Rennet Apples and Wild Bluebells
The apples are just about the last fruit trees to bloom in the garden, and they’ve finally started flowering.

04/16/2010 - Free Garden Stuff
I like finding stuff for free.

04/09/2010 - Easter
Last Sunday was Palm Sunday, so I went with my wife to the local blessing of the palm fronds down on the bay.

04/02/2010 - Local Color
One of my favorite things about life in Italy is the different rhythm of my life here.

03/26/2010 - Building with Bottles
While I’m waiting for the soil to dry out so I can prepare the beds for spring planting, I spend time in the garden building a new terrace on the lower part of the cliff.

03/19/2010 - Cherry Grafting
I was at my friend Richard’s house this week when his neighbor came over and grafted another one of Richard’s old cherry trees.

03/12/2010 - Black Plastic and Hose Bibs
I finally got around to reworking the irrigation pipes in the lower part of the garden this weekend, and I now have two new spigots down there.

03/05/2010 - Carciofi
My vegetable garden is sort of like my wallet in that I’m never completely happy with how much it contains.

02/26/2010 - Yellow Broccoli, Yummy!
This week we’ll harvest the first yellow broccoli in our garden.