Before the next big storm or the first strong frost ends their season, I would like to sing a song for the dahlias.
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As with many weddings this summer, the anticipation was extra-prolonged because the date was originally set for the infamous summer of 2020.
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Plants that made the first wave of flowering things – Indian plum, daffodil, salmon berry – have moved on to leaf growth and bulb building and seed production.
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Read MoreOh, anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day
Read MoreThe foot-plus of snow from two weeks ago feels like a memory of a trip to a different place
Things are starting to shoot up.
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It arrived in late May, a 400 pound crate full of greenhouse pieces ready for assembly. The farmer had assigned to me the role of lead builder. T
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Cheryl and Wayne joined us for a farm work party in early December.
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Read MoreFall is a time of leave-takings, it’s true.
Read MoreThis summer I grew a curiosity worthy of a roadside attraction.
This was a close to normal summer for rain here, which is to say it was dry, dry, dry.
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Auden writes that the gardeners say…
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I am machine-averse and was ready to start breaking up the clumps and mixing everything up with our trusty garden fork. The farmer had other ideas, however, and soon discovered that the neighbors owned an electric tiller.
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Sweet Peas have been the stars of our first season of growing for Hummingbird.
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As with the sod removal, my fence building approach is low-tech and inefficient.
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I thought about my paternal grandfather’s family while digging the new flower beds. The work involved carving out a sod rectangle with my spade, shearing off and carrying away the grassy part and the first few inches on top, and breaking up the clods left behind in the proto-bed.
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When the last of great continental glaciers finished its excavation of Puget Sound, it left behind an 81 square mile moraine that would later be called Vashon Island.
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