It was over 100 degrees here yesterday, and today doesn’t show any promise of relief. I’m not fond of real heat, but what’s a gal gonna do? I live where I live. On a brighter note, yesterday…
Cheaper Than Therapy
A friend sent the above piece to me, as she said it reminded her of me. (I have no idea where she found it.) And this little bit of art is right. Gardening is cheaper than therapy. …
Trying to Grow
I just put a few tomato plants in the ground at the new pad. Only a few though, and nothing like the numbers of years past. Since we don’t know the sun patterns at this house, we have…
Final “In The Garden” – For Now
Now that I’m an apartment-dweller, I must bid adieu to my old garden. It isn’t easy, I won’t lie. The plants, the spiders, the tomatoes – all gone. I could cry. But I won’t. Because this…
Easy Summer Pasta
So here’s what happened… We had a tremendous tomato haul. In one day. One day, y’all. Oh, but there was more… I couldn’t just let those tomatoes sit there. Unloved. Uneaten. And I didn’t…
In the Garden – Update
I posted about our little tomato garden a couple of months back. A lot has changed since then. Where there was this… there’s now this… 5 feet high and rising! This… …
In the Garden
Sometimes it feels like the world, in all its glory, is conspiring against you. Never mind it actually isn’t, it just sometimes feels that way. And no matter how rational you want to be, once you feel…
Tomatomania!
Several years ago, Mister and I discovered a happening called “Tomatomania!” It’s an heirloom tomato seedling sale that takes place each Spring in various communities around the country. It started in the early ’90’s in Pasadena, CA. As…