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Did you know that it’s popcorn season. Not eating it, but harvesting it. Home-grown, it’s so easy and so delicious, better that those giant puffs of commercial popcorn. It’s also chestnut season, which, especially, with a couple of weeks curing, is also delicious. Both very homey this time of year. Growing, harvesting, and more all described in my latest blog post, here.
A recent visit to Maine was like a time machine, sort of. There was the Common Ground Fair, the first of many visits to was about 20 years ago. And similarly for a visit with Eliot Coleman, except these visits began 50 years ago! Still learning and getting better at growing plants organically and sustainably. The trip and conversations described, you know where, in my latest blog post, accessible from my website (my name dot com).
I gotta admit it, this year’s garden was my worst ever! I think I know the reason — no, the many reasons –why. We gardeners, farmdeners, and farmers can always blame the weather. What, specifically about the weather, and what other reasons can I suss. Read what I thought, some of it may apply in your garden or farmden, in my latest blog post.
Why think about autumn on a beautiful, summer day? Because that’s what a good gardener needs to do. And I take action. Whaaa? For why and what and how, go to my website to read my latest blog post.
You’ve got to be careful what you wish for. Nonetheless, the naturally rich, well-drained but moisture retentive soil here has made me, especially this season of abundant rainfall, heat, and sunlight — okay I’ll say it, wish I was gardening on poor soil. But then I have second thoughts because what, after all, does “poor soil” mean. Join me and my experience and re-evaluation in my latest blog post.
I just sunk my teeth into a carrot pulled mere minutes ago from the garden; the taste was not good. I’m not surprised, because that’s often the case with my carrots. For the reason why, I might turn to a book, one of my books, The Ever Curious Gardener, the last chapter where I talk about the senses, including flavor: “With light, moisture, temperature, day length — so many variables — making their mark on flavor, a more additive approach to growing flavorful crops might be more useful rather than trying to parse out individual, interacting, influences. This kind of attention has been lavished on studies with carrots by raising them in phytotrons . . .” Ah, but there’s much more to the story, covered, as you might have guessed, in my latest blog post.
Make believe it’s spring. That’s what I’m doing this time of year as I drop seeds into minifurrows of potting soil in seedling trays. It’s as if I’m getting ready to plant a garden — and, in fact, I am. The fall garden. Having a fall garden is like having a whole other garden with no additional space needed. That’s why I’m sowing in seedling trays rather than elbowing my way into the present garden’s valuable real estate. Today I sowed lettuce, and . . . what?, when?, how? All in my latest blog post:
A greenhouse isn’t only for winter. Join me, in my latest blog post, as we walk through the door to see what fruits (and a vegetable and a spice) are now growing. Special varieties of grapes, mulberries, cucumbers, and more! For more information about all this, read my latest blog post at www.leereich.com/blog, here.
Free fertilizer for your garden! No, it’s not a giveaway from me, but from our friend, familiar to many gardeners, Rhizobia. Less know are Frankia and many other friends. You’re probably curious about this even if you know Rhizobia. Find out more in my latest blog post.
Are organic fertilizers better than synthetic ones? For plants? For the environment? Are all organic fertilizers better. What’s best. Grab your pitchfork and read about it in my latest blog post.
