I have a new tool and I think I may be in love. It is a torch that I can use standing up to burn… Continue reading
Every growing season the garden is a different story. We gardeners never know what is going to thrive or stall. This year I have Magic… Continue reading
We are now deep into the growing season and the vegetable harvest is well underway. All of the Romanesque cauliflower is in the freezer and… Continue reading
Strawberries are fraught with enemies. For you to have a bowl of these beauties on your kitchen counter you need to put in some effort.… Continue reading
I think about you. You who have never gardened. You who have tried and failed. You who have gone big and really need to see… Continue reading
Editor’s Note: This is the Kachemak Gardener’s last column of the season.If fate led me to become an apple vendor I would make a slim… Continue reading
Those of you who grow apples have scoffed at my columnar apple tree. It has been said that it isn’t a “real” apple tree. But,… Continue reading
A magnolia in bloom right here at latitude 59 degrees 39 minutes north. Now that’s something to write home about. Well-known Homer gardener Shirley Forquer… Continue reading
I went to a friends garden this week because she is frustrated with what she has going on. I truly think being overwhelmed by your… Continue reading
Where to start? The last two weeks have been so full, so interesting, so busy. And all of this in the garden. I can’t imagine… Continue reading
Warm temperatures and just enough rain. What gardener could ask for more? The garden has resoundingly responded. Lush. Productive. Gorgeous. In the 44 years I’ve… Continue reading
Just when I think the entire world is going to hell I make an excellent discovery: a neighbor with a vegetable garden that is exactly… Continue reading
We all think about how we can make the most of our time. So there I was, considering the seed pods rapidly developing on the… Continue reading
I talk too much. Three times this past week I have invited interested gardeners over to look at this creation. Now, I said “interested” and… Continue reading
T here is more than meets the eye in a garden. Liz Johnson and I shared many a pot of tea on dark winter days… Continue reading
Please, don’t let Al Gore know how much I’m loving this March and April. I feel like I should be wearing a hair shirt and… Continue reading
Never in the 44 years of living in Alaska have I had a garden party the first weekend of April, and there we were, with… Continue reading
It isn’t all that unusual to have five inches of new snow on the first day of spring. There are two ways to cope: either … Continue reading
There is nothing that irritates me more than the month of March. Well, national politics but that’s only this year. March springs eternal. I have… Continue reading
So here it is Sunday evening at elevation 396 feet. I spent the afternoon shaking almost two feet of wet, heavy snow off shrubs. I… Continue reading
