Nothing confounds a gardener more than 3 days of vacation and 3 days of predicted rain.
Let's just say the laundry is done, the house and the potting shed are now spotless, and there's a lot of bread that's been made. But I have another day and a half left!!
This is a journal, of sorts, of an organic garden in SW Michigan. It is also an opportunity for its writer to vent about much that ails her. "Ut sementem feceris, ita metes." --Cicero
About Me
- El
- A city girl who realized upon the birth of her daughter that life is entirely too short to spend on 1/12th of an acre, she now digs up her weeds (usually with a pick) on 5.
Tips for living a la Alice Waters:
Eat locally and sustainably
Eat seasonally
Shop at farmers' markets
Plant a garden
Conserve, compost and recycle
Cook simply
Cook together
Eat together
Remember food is precious
from The Art of Simple Food, New York: Clarkson Potter, 2007
Eat seasonally
Shop at farmers' markets
Plant a garden
Conserve, compost and recycle
Cook simply
Cook together
Eat together
Remember food is precious
from The Art of Simple Food, New York: Clarkson Potter, 2007
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This weedpuller can be reached at fastweedpuller at gmail dot com.
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3 comments:
I am happy to have the rain right now, it was so dry. But I don't have much to show for my time.
It's now or never for me, so I'm dodging raindrops.
Carol, what, you weren't watching the Indy 5?
Elizabeth, yeah, I am dodging the raindrops, too, but it all seems so damned futile. Clay+rain=bad stuff, and I've got new gardens to put in. Yikes. Waiting is HARD.
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