The Promise of Spring

The season starts with a dream and faith in the smallest seed.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Mums The Word...

One of my long dormant gardening interests has always been a passion for mums. It started I suppose with the traditional garden mums that pop up at home centers every fall, but it definitely grew from there once I was introduced to all of the truly amazing cultivars and Japanese shaping techniques known collectively as Kiku. I first ran across them when researching a visit to the NY Botanical Gardens a few years ago. Here are just a few...

Bringing in the Harvest

The first flush of the summer harvest has begun! This past weekend we celebrated our very first full scale harvest of something besides the salad greens which we've been enjoying for a couple of months now. (And would still be enjoying if not for the groundhog...) Here's a quick peek at our first haul: Broccoli and Cauliflower  It got SUPER hot here the past couple of weeks which caused the broccoli and cauliflower to start to head towards...