Category Archives: Vegetables

This Week in the Garden – end of June: hello greens, goodbye peonies & wisteria

This Week in the Garden – end of June: hello greens, goodbye peonies & wisteria

Oh, and there was a skunk in our henhouse eating eggs all of last weekend, too. But that’s not technically the garden, even if he did stank up the garden on the night he was discovered robbing the eggs. We are eating giant mixed green salads every night at dinner, which is really fabulous, butContinue Reading

This Week in the Garden – mid-June: strawberries and wild turkeys

This Week in the Garden – mid-June: strawberries and wild turkeys

I’m a little tardy with this week’s garden update. JR and I took a very quick trip to North Carolina, stayed at a lovely bed and breakfast, ate outstanding North Carolina-style pulled pork (in vinegar and crushed red pepper sauce) and Brunswick stew, then hoofed it around Pinehurst No. 2 for the final day of the men’sContinue Reading

This Week in the Garden: Early June

This Week in the Garden: Early June

Perfect spring days are like hallucinogens. Hallucinogens that I am happy to take, even while our perennial gardens’ progress is proof positive that this spring has been less than kind. Our southern New England growing season has been set back slightly, a result of the brutal winter, and the still occasionally brutal spring. But aContinue Reading

Planting Garlic

Planting Garlic

Despite the growing season having come to an end here, there is still much to do in the garden. There is the clean-up, of course, the asparagus fronds require a haircut and some mulching, the salad bowl bed requires a tilling (but only half of it, as the collard greens, kale, and leeks are doingContinue Reading

Brockton Beans

Brockton Beans

JR and I met at a local golf course where I was the bartender and he was a member. Member implies something fancy, and, in that regard, is a bit of a misnomer used in reference to this particular golf course. Around town it was known as a rowdy, blue collar club. However, he didContinue Reading