Foggy morning
I went out early to clear the netting, stakes, and what remained of the cucumber vines. Fresh cucumbers for Thanksgiving forsooth. I am undecided about what to do with the bed. I will want to clear and prepare it next spring for early planting of tomatoes and peppers under Wall-O-Water tepees. Hmm. I did not [...]
Cold hands
A bounty. I picked the first orange today It has been a few months since we have had a regular supply of fresh fruit from the garden. That ended today. Not very sweet. But the orange had a full, delicious flavor. Winter vegetables The lettuce patch The lettuce patch is getting bigger. The process is [...]
Fresh fare
Fresh, plain fare It’s that kind of day. Pulling ivy and morning glory vines off the uphill fence and from the paths between the beds, watering, weeding. Cleaning up GPS tracks of a hike Elaine and I made. Creating maps using Google Maps, Garmin TOPO, and National Geographic TOPO. I am about to head for [...]
Happy Thanksgiving
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Winter garden
Few gardeners, even in northern California, grow vegetables in the winter. It’s cold. And wet. And vegetables grow ever so slowly. But. It is so very grand to be able to pull carrots, snip broccoli or lettuce, and eat them. And there is the perverse pride of knowing you are one of very few who [...]
Full day
I tilled and amended the first triangular bed, Bed 1, and Bed 3, and planted broccoli seedlings, sugar peas, lettuce seedlings, and garlic starts. Cooked beets, carrots, and broccoli. Oh my. I hiked from the Skyline Staging Area to Orchard Trail on the Bay Area Ridge Trail and got a good GPS track. I think. [...]
Almost November
And I harvested tomatoes today. Tomatoes harvested on October 29 From the looks of them, they will not be the best of the season. A long way from that. But better, by far, than anything I can find in a store. I ate broccoli this week that I had bought at Farmer Joe’s. Cardboard. Elaine [...]
The Promise of a Day
When I awakened and looked out the window, I saw red tints on the fog over downtown Oakland. Very beautiful from here. And I saw the garden, thinking I’ll work the soil for the new lettuce patch and put the seedlings out to begin their hardening up. Lettuce seedlings ready to go outside Elaine and [...]
The Shroud of Coolidge
Elaine and I went to Berkeley Hort today, a sometimes Sunday ritual with us. We picked up a lot of pea seeds. Peas make a good cover crop, helping to fix nitrogen into the soil. We also picked up floating row cover for the brassicaceae (cabbage, cauliflower, etc.). Floating row cover over the brassicaceae bed [...]
Way Out in the Pacific
The rains begin on Monday. And seeing that forecast, I brought up my dashboard to look at the radar widgets, expecting to see the tell tale green smudges over the Pacific Northwest. I know. None of this would have made any sense ten years ago. Or even five. No smudges. This storm is the remnants [...]
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