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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]