Articles

  • Gardening after the flood

    Water crashes, rocks slide and I’m awed by the power of it all. Gardeners know it’s give and take with… Read more

  • Patience: a gardening virtue

    The longer Kit gardens the more she has to resist the urge to start over with a clean slate. Patience… Read more

  • Powerful gardening tool in your pocket

    Traveling north for a family funeral last month, I encountered a snow storm rocking the Midwest. I overheard lots of… Read more

  • Who’s there?

    Who’s there?

    I had my suspicions. The tracks, the teeth marks, the molested strawberries — it suggested rabbits. A motion-activated camera, often… Read more

  • The satisfying squish

    Gardening employs euphemistic language to describe some occasionally ugly business. Recently I’ve been engaged in “mechanical removal.” It’s a little… Read more