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.
My husband and I have wanted to build a better compost pile for a few years now.
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.
For just a moment, I’d like to invite you to step away from your farm, and come with me to the Monteverde Cloud Forest in Costa Rica, a fantastical place filled with such an infinite variety of plants and animals it makes my lush Washington home look like a wasteland by comparison.
It's spring, and there always seems to be a few weeds or brambles that didn't get clipped in the fall.
There is nothing quite like pulling into a field in the spring and beginning the planting process.
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.
The Philadelphia Flower Show was last week and every year I swear I’m going to go and here passed another year without a trip.
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