PROXIMAL THOUGHTS, PROXIMAL ACTION
I realize the laziness of humans, including myself, and dig lines for more convenient watering; gardens are already situated sufficiently close to save a few steps. And celeriac, what’s going on? Grow!
Entries by Lee Reich
A VERY GOOD YEAR, SO FAR
All is good: Mexican bean beetles cease to be a problem, corn soars higher than 10 feet, and, as usual, blueberry bushes bear awesome quantities of delectable berries.
ROT AND FLOWERS
Juicy plums just about ready to pick and then . . . yecchhh, brown rot srikes again. Shift gears, plants flowers. Will they help against brown rot?
PESTS, INCLUDING ME(?)
I watch out for pests: thousand canker disease of black walnut, chipmunks (not a pest for me), and me (not a pest for strawberries, although it might appear so)
GOOD FRUITS, ONE A VEGETABLE
World’s Best Fruit? Finally, I reap the fruits of one of my labors. Literally. The fruit is black mulberry, the species, that is Morus nigra, rather than any of the black-colored mulberries that grow all over the place around here. The latter are species and natural hybrids of white and red mulberries (M. alba […]
TWO DELICIOUS ORBS, ONE BLUE & ONE WHITE
I offer a “prescription” for blueberry soil, which is most important for healthy plants and the bowl after bowl heaped high with blueberries here on the farmden all summer long. Then I mosey over to the vegetable garden for some of the best-tasting turnips.
HEAVEN AND(?) SOME HELL
I turn off the highway in New Jersey to find my myself in “The Blueberry Capital” of the world, then drive on to taste a number of new and tasty berries. Back, Japanese beetles rear their ugly heads.
GOOD SUMMER BLUES
With planning, I got the summer blues — and I like them. Tall spires of delphinium. Then, looking more at ground level, weeding to keep vegetable garden in good shape for fall crops.
EDEN’S GARDENS
G wants his Eden; start with the soil, with the help of the USDA’s Soil Web Survey. And then, on to plants: How about Pakistani mulberry? Heavenly, even if it wasn’t from Eden.
