Indian Pipe

by | Sep 3, 2014 | Talk Dirt to Me

Each year I go with a collection of friends, the boarders and the boss to the Adirondacks for a camping and canoeing trip. We’ve been going for years and it has become one of the highlights of the year. This year was the first that the whole Rounds inequitable...

Raising Boarders

by | Mar 19, 2014 | Talk Dirt to Me

Raising boarders My onion seeds germinated quickly and uniformly. But they suffered from ass over tea-kettle syndrome. Onion seeds send up an enormous shoot before their roots really get a chance to sink at all. Perhaps “enormous” gives you an unreasonable...

Bt

by | Sep 10, 2014 | Talk Dirt to Me

The boss loves Brussels sprouts. Her father bakes them with olive oil and salt (he has a heavy hand with both) and she pops them like candy. So I always grow a few plants. I’ve never had overwhelming success. Sure we’ll eat Brussels sprouts a few times a...

Physics

by | Mar 25, 2014 | Talk Dirt to Me

String theory gives me the howling fantods. These theoretical strings are the most elementary of particles: one dimensional “objects” that have different quantum states. It is postulated (love that passive voice) that matter arises from these strings and...

Chewing on the grindstone

by | Sep 17, 2014 | Talk Dirt to Me

I’m pretty happy with my tomato harvest, I haven’t thought that in a long time. Late blight, early blight and septoria take their toll. Even though I grew all blight resistant varieties, they weren’t impervious to the various fungi. Nevertheless,...