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Yay! It’s Bloom Day!
There go the last crocuses of spring. The first appeared on the south side of the house on March 11 while there was still much snow about. These are in my wife’s main flower bed on the west side of...
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Enough Peas to Preserve
When you grow enough peas to stock your larder or freezer, it’s important to process them within a day of picking them. During peak season, I harvest about a gallon of pods each day. To keep up with...
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Buds on Nearly Wordless Wednesday
Technorati Tags: apples, buds, flowers, fruit, peaches, pears
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Fruit Flowers for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
My apple trees had more blossoms than in any past season. If all become fruit, I’ll need to rent a stand at the farmers’ market. What an awesome spring we’re having! Sure, it was unpleasantly cold...
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Community Garden Ithaca
Just inside the gate of Ithaca’s community garden is a planting bed along the base of the fence. Many types of plants were sprouting there; my favorites were potatoes. Sunshine and 76 degrees! What...
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More Mint Madness!
A mint plant I bought at a grocery store to flavor a Turkish meal became pot bound in the nearly two months before I was ready to work in my garden. The thick white band running around the root ball...
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Peonies at Cornell Plantations
A few planting beds at Cornell University’s Plantations hold a variety of peonies unlike any I or my dad have grown over the past 50 years. Please forgive me for stepping away from my kitchen garden....
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Food in my Kitchen Garden!
Anywhere I point a camera at the pear tree it captures an image with many pears. I’ve never seen so many pears on the tree in a season. If they reach maturity, I’ll have a lot of preserving to do! As...
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Daniel and Stacy Built a Wall
It has been no secret that my dad moved out of our family home of 50+ years and I’ve spent a very long time emptying the house and getting it ready to rent. It’s a departure from the gardening content...
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Cultivate ’14: Horticulture Conference for Industry Geeks
The Cultivate Conference draws many plant breeders to show off their latest varieties: petunias, chrysanthemums, coleus, roses, heucheras, gomphrena… there were even new varieties of vegetables and...
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Pears, Squirrels, and Woodchucks. Rats!
Until the end of June, everywhere I looked on my pear tree there were pears… and most were in excellent shape. Things changed in July when a squirrel decided to take charge. What a year for pears! My...
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Grow Marjoram! Seriously, Grow It
After stopping to photograph a nicely-planted boulevard, I got an invite to the back yard where a small farm was well on its way to harvest. The bushy clump in front of the gas grill (front-left) is...
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Visit in Brenda Haas’s Garden
It’s hard to decide where a tour of Brenda Haas’s ranch should begin! In a gorgeous border beside her house, a volunteer pumpkin plant capriciously cavorts among the ornamentals. One of the surest...
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Grandpa Gasteiger and Throwback Thursday
In 1953, my grandfather was outstanding in his field when someone took this photograph. The scrubby tree in front of the corn on the right side of the photo, I think, is a quince tree that looked...
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Vines? No, Bines! Who knew?
I saw these trellised plants from the road beyond the barn repeatedly before I finally stopped and talked with the farmer at the Rhizome Republic. These are hops bines in upstate New York in early...
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Bloom Day in my Kitchen Garden, September 2014
I brought some kind of violet home after leading an all-day social media marketing workshop for Garden Writers Association. It started as a small pot and has expanded in two years to cover nearly...
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Throwback Thursday to Assateague in 2005
Assateague Island, 2005 from left-to-right: My wife, my daughter (youngest child and now a freshman in college), my second son (a sophomore/junior in college), my first son (a med school bound college...
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Garden Hero Spider
After careful research, I’m somewhat confident this photograph is of an European Garden Spider… though in Europe they probably call it a “Garden Spider.” I was very pleased this morning to see it had...
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