How to Make a Tomato Trellis: A Cagey Alternative
Tomatoes need our support. (You trying maintaining vertical with 10 pounds of green, red orbs hanging off your branches. ) Some people cage them...
From One Slug to Another, Nice Artwork
Slugs get a bad rap (justifiably so) around here. How can a slow-moving creature with the viscosity of a gumdrop manage to clear cut...
Growing Tomatoes: When Plants Are All Legs
Uh oh Boz, I know that look, the scowl of an unhappy bulldog, judging me for taking too long to plant all of my tomato starts. (Gracie...
Rhubarb Vanilla Ice Cream: You Scream, I Scream…
Rhubarb-a-Palooza Continues...
With current Seattle temperatures visiting degrees reserved for ice fishing and mukluk wearing, should I really be making ice cream? Heck, yes; I scream...
Strawberry Rhubarb: The Fred and Ginger of Jam
Strawberry Rhubarb Romance in a Jam
In the world of preserves (and pie), spring's star couple is strawberry rhubarb. One's sweet, one's sour, both show...
To Everything There Is a Season (Well, Kinda)
He who knows the right time to put up a hammock...
Should also know it's also a cue to take down the Christmas lights.
One year ago: Sprouting...
Missing the Boat, But Catching the Show
After a day off-island with friends, I had too many miles and too few minutes between me and the 8:00 pm ferry to Vashon. As...
Taylor’s Pink Perfection Camellia and Miss Wells’ Lipstick
Nature doles out some amazing colors. When my Taylor's Pink Perfection camellia began to bloom for the first time, I found its blush exuberant,...
Bart, Your Primula Is Doing Fine
In some cafe, perhaps in Amsterdam, maybe in Bruges sits a man whose interest in the works of Van Gogh and Rubens is only...
Periwinkle Vinca Major Covers a Lot of Ground
Periwinkle: Vinca Major, a sea of knee-high green
I'd have to say the periwinkle Vinca major saves me about a bazillion hours of weeding each summer, smothering out...
