This summer, I resisted the urge to kill the tomato hornworms in the garden. Instead I let the braconid wasps, tiny delicate creatures, lay their eggs on the backs of the worms. I counted about six infected hornworms the day… Read more ›
Four or five volunteer tomato vines came up among the peppers. They produced lots of flavorful, long-keeping tomatoes.
The rocks used for this wall were here when we moved in, but in a jumbled pile below the North garden. I thought they were brought in for some project but after digging out two similar—albeit smaller—rocks from the garden… Read more ›
April – June This bed is planted with onions. Here Dennis and I are burning cedar and pine branches making ash and charcoal for the garden. We gradually move the fire as it burns leaving the char behind. Below you… Read more ›
