Charity tells me that she’s been inundated with squash of late. It wasn’t long ago that she had an almost identical complaint – only then it was summer squash that she was getting buried under. Winter squash is a different beast, but one that I love to get my hands on. Butternut squash in particular [Read more]
Archive for November, 2011
Plant Presents! Thrifty and Full of Love
When I was a kid, our backyard was full of irises. But not just any irises. Irises grown from cuttings of my grandmother’s irises. Long after she sold her house, moved into an apartment, and left her garden and its hundreds of irises behind, her irises lived on at our place. As a crazy lover [Read more]
What Became of Our Indoor Carrots
You might recall reading about how I had planted carrots in a planter and intended to grow and nurture them indoors on my window sill. You might also recall thinking that that plan sounded somewhat far-fetched. After all, carrots grow deep inside the ground, and normally emerge from a carrot patch with about another 100 [Read more]
As Nightshade As They Come: Purple Eggplants
(image) In the fairy tales my grandmother used to read to me, peasants were always stealing into walled gardens by night, scrambling up vines or slipping through hidden doors, pocketing one or two precious fruits in the moonlight before trying to sneak away. Because the gardens were always owned by witches, inevitably, they were caught. [Read more]