Blossoms are showering our sidewalks with pink snow, tulips and daffodils are out in full force, so it must be time to plant our vegetab...

Tomatoes this year? A mixed bag. The cherry tomatoes—one Sungold and a black cherry—were prolific, as was a full-sized green variety call...

Was it just 10 days ago that I posted a photo of my baby greens ? Yikes! With the unseasonably sunny and warm-to-hot temperatures, the ...

I admit it. I'm a nosey parker at heart. There's nothing better I like than having a chance to get on the other side of the fenc...

We took a vacation from gardening last year, with the excuse that we were letting the beds "go fallow." It might well have expe...

In honor of Mother's Day, which was marked earlier this month, the Xerces Society published this perspective on pollinator gardenin...

While most of our garden still slumbers under a tangle of fallen sunflower stalks and the weeds and grass that are beginning to take it o...

We leave town for a week and suddenly it's tomato season! Can't ask for better timing than that, especially since a couple of...

A picture is indeed worth a thousand words. All I have to do is go back one month and look at the photos of the garden back then. Tomato...

My friend Antonia Manda is a fabulously talented fabric designer, illustrator and artist, and I'm always knocked out by the creative...

I was beginning to think that, for the first time in memory, we might not be planting tomatoes in our garden. My neighbor, Susana , had p...

The blueberries were the first to go in, a selection that included Duke, Blueray, Earliblue and a mature Bluecrop bush from a friend who ...

Speaking of gardening , there are some lessons that I've had to learn the hard way. My recent Waterloo came in the form of a friend o...

When I planted those lacinato kale seeds in the garden last spring, I figured I'd get some good eating from their greens later in th...

Is it any wonder that late summer is one of our very favorite times of the year? This is the haul I just made from our garden, and it doe...

Along with the best of times, like an unseasonably warm early spring and some mind-blowingly sunny days a couple of weeks ago, came maybe...

I first met Jimmy by chance about a year ago at the Hillsdale Farmers Market. He was hanging around with a bunch of friends near a large pi...

It had to happen sometime. We coddled them, cooed over them, fed them their favorite foods. But it's time for them to deal with the har...

Our best ideas, at least around here, often get put on what we not-so-jokingly refer to as the "Mañana Plan." That is, it's s...

The deed is done. Do I feel bad? A little. Like writing in books, you're not supposed to kill trees, especially mature, beautiful trees...