Author: Laurie

  • So I only got two hours of sleep last night. So what? And I’ve only had one full night of sleep since last Thursday. Other people run on adrenaline all the time. What is weird is that I usually can’t, but here it is 3:30 in the afternoon and I’m still chugging along…maybe I’m getting…

  • Oh my god. Major chaos. Spring, please get here soon. I need to pull some weeds

  • I hope my other little artichoke seedlings make it. I bid one of them adieu this morning. Apparently I have been overwatering them. I have always had a hard time with figuring that out! I have read that they are good plants to grow around apple trees, and I’m trying to revive the little apple…

  • Arghh, my poor little artichokes, have I drowned them? My broccoli seedlings are so spindly. Are they supposed to look like this? They’re getting good light – I have them in a window with a natural-spectrum lamp shining on them. The Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter tomatoes are strong little tykes, though. Maybe they will become…

  • 2002- The first year we lived in this house, there was a severe drought. We have a small back yard where someone had cultivated a garden space about ten years ago. I started digging and found red clay solid enough to throw a pot from about 4-5 inches down. That was somewhat of a surprise!…

  • 2002- The first year we lived in this house, there was a severe drought. We have a small back yard where someone had cultivated a garden space about ten years ago. I started digging and found red clay solid enough to throw a pot from about 4-5 inches down. That was somewhat of a surprise!…

  • I’ve wanted to write a garden journal for a couple of years now. I wish I had started writing about my garden at its beginning, but now is better than never! I have been fascinated with food, gardening and ecology for a long time. More recently I have become seriously interested in voluntary simplicity and…