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I know it’s been a while. I know. Let’s put that behind us and move on to greener pastures. Or dead ones. The potato patch, to be specific. Potatoes are a cash crop and worth the effort. [No, not really.] Potatoes grown in the garden are amazingly different from their supermarket counterparts and worth the [...] 
Garden Tomatoes. Can you ever have too many? Yes and no, is what I say. Yes, if you are buried under mounds of work and untended-to yard and garden chores. No, if you have all the time in the world. Like my kids seem to have… nevermind. I am told it is a bad [...] 
(Insanity as in asparagus.) As I was working in the garden this weekend — planting almost the remainder of the seeds — it occurred to me that the date was June 5th. Or 6th. I’m still not sure of the date because Charlie was using my watch this weekend to referee a soccer game [...] 
(the most important day of the year.) We, in Minnesota, are in the midst of about the worst Spring ever. Rain, snow, frost, wind and more rain. It hasn’t been the best environment to garden in. It. Has. Been. Dismal. But on the most important day of the year, the sun shone. All day. [...] 
And Asparagus Stalks All Over the Messy Row. Mary, Mary would have a hard time with this stage of the garden. Let me illustrate: 9 am: 4 pm: And finally, at 9 pm, right before I picked it: And, no, I didn’t touch the ruler all day. Isn’t that amazing? I [...] 
Well, it’s here. Or at least we think it’s here. (Spring.) Based on the air quality today, however, my guess would be that we pretty much are skipping Spring and heading straight to Humidity. After a long winter, I’ll try my best not to complain. It’s just that my hair is… It’s just that my [...] 
This is Minnesota, folks. …Despite those 70 degree October temperatures that somehow, unbelievably, made it in to early November. We reveled in it. We wore flip-flops in November! The decadence. The sheer thrill! It’s basically what every other state in the nation gets to do on a regular basis, except us. I bet they [...] 
Mmmmm. I know I tend to go on and on about Kale. But seriously? It’s that good. Everyone just assumes it tastes like spinach. But it really doesn’t. Lacking a good comparison, however, that’s what most people say. Including me, I’ll admit. Because there isn’t a good comparison. It tastes like Kale. Nutty, earthy, [...] 
Or at least make compost out of it. It’s that time of year in the garden. Of doing the final tasks. What amazes me to no end is that the final tasks never actually seem to end. I’ve been doing these final tasks for what seems likes weeks now and I’m still not done! [...] …Or Not. Remember my nail biting back in late June about whether or not I’d get pumpkins grown in time this year due to my late planting date of June 28th? Well, thanks –I think– to the hot summer and an unusually late first frost, I did! I had a few surprises though. [...] |
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