Tough gardening

by | Aug 5, 2011 | Talk Dirt to Me

We had a rough bit of heat for a few weeks followed by some good rain and a bit of a cool down. This has been ideal for most of the plant life in my yard. As I mentioned in my last post, I had to chase down my family last week. This was made more difficult as they...

It was time

by | May 11, 2012 | Talk Dirt to Me

There are many lovely things about chez grouch, but one underappreciated aspect is that most of the trees overhanging our yard are actually growing in other people’s yards. This means that they own the leaves and so have to rake them. At least that’s my...

Willdness

by | Aug 7, 2011 | Talk Dirt to Me

On my commute to work I pedal over the mini-coolidge bridge, I guess it could be called the Charles G. Dawes vice bridge. Sometimes I stop and look north (away from Silent Cal’s bridge). I’m always impressed by the J. Elwell Conservation area stretching up...

Aphids suck

by | May 14, 2012 | Talk Dirt to Me

When you think of aphids, you no doubt think of the alt-country band from Basel, Switzerland and their single “I don’t want to go to heaven” (because they’re closing all the bars). Perhaps you think of the Soviet era missile nicknamed...

Growing like weeds, with spikes

by | Aug 9, 2011 | Talk Dirt to Me

I have written about respberries several times over the course of the last few months. Last year’s harvest was dissapointing at least in part because of poor pruning and trellising on the part of my yard boy. This year I decided to change all of that, I fired...