Garden

It’s one of those things that happens sometimes. You want something. You try for it and try for it, and you fail. You give up. (Or perhaps some less defeated word. You surrender. Let it go.) Then when you’re not looking, it moves into your house.

I’ve been looking forward to the publication of Grow a Little Fruit Tree for a year and a half, ever since

I want to say it’s going to get crazy cold here, but I know that’s going to make a bunch

A majestic Santa Rosa plum tree cracked and dropped a huge limb in my neighborhood last week, spilling so much

I’m slowly getting better at gardening. Partly, it has to do with simplifying. Instead of trying to grow everything, I’ve

When I walked into the nursery and said I’d come for a strawberry shortcake, they looked at me like I

This is what it’s like in the February garden. The soiled rag, the oilcloth hanging half off the table, the

To those who have not yet learned the secret of true happiness, begin now to study the little things in

May in the garden means things are getting bloomy. Back in February (seems like just yesterday), I seeded a couple

One of the first things I did when I moved out of my parents’ home and into a place of