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The Botany of Desire Michael Pollan explains how four plants, the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato, have all managed to further their existence by controlling us, the human beings. The apple seduces us with sweetness, the tulip with beauty, marijuana (cannabis) with intoxication, and the potato, in its productivity, gives us greater control over our […]

If you think you’ve seen everything there is to see when it comes to apple pies, take a look at these. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

Here’s a look at what’s going on with Garden Cam 2. You can read Part I here. You can see parts of the 3 rows on this camera. The second raspberry plot is at the bottom of the frame. The raspberry canes are about 2 feet high now. The semi-dwarf Honeycrisp apple tree is toward […]

Now that both garden cams are merrily humming along, I thought this might be a good opportunity to describe the garden, or what you can see of it on cam 1. The garden is comprised of 7 wide rows, from the narrowest at 3 feet to the widest at 6 feet. You can see parts […]

I continue to do experiments with stretching the garden season to year-round. If I can grow greens continually, there will be no reason to freeze greens. My plans include adding more cold frames and perhaps a miniature hoop house. In addition to the kale and leeks and lettuce and spinach that made it through the […]

We spend time in the summer growing produce and then spend time in the winter cooking it up and eating it. Not a bad arrangement. There are folks willing to point out that a person would do better spending the time earning money and spending the money at the grocery store. No matter how you […]

The rewards of the garden in October are multiple. There’s the accounting of the quantitative results, either in pounds of tomatoes or quarts canned. There’s an accounting of the qualitative results as well, either a given crop was good or not so good, a lot or a few, hardy or weak, tasty or bland. There […]