Now that my garden plot at Roseville Community Garden is fully planted for the season and growing, I thought I’d do a quick visual essay from the start of gardening season to date, then continue posting a photo from the same perspective each week throughout the season. Here goes… starting from April 12 through June […] Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes, it is a triumph of hope over experience. — Marina Schinz Just a quick update today, I was just too busy […] God in His wisdom made the fly and then forgot to tell us why. ~Ogden Nash, “The Fly” Delia radicum – commonly known as the cabbage fly, or cabbage root fly – ate my radishes. Allow me to correct myself…the squirming white cabbage fly maggots ate my radishes. And their name fits their crime! Another […] In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it. ~Frank McKinney Hubbard Memorial Day weekend, five full weeks since Plot #63 at Roseville Community Garden was planted, and the garden’s progress is […] Woke up to a seasonably warm, muggy, mid-summer Saturday morning. Grabbed a cup of coffee, “opened office” under the patio umbrella and finished up some client work left over from the week. I had every intention of doing this and a few household chores before heading down to the garden to weed and finish trimming […] |