Category Archives: Garden: A Love Story

The journal of my gardening exploits.

Taking Leeks

Posted on February 6, 2012 by literarylee

I harvested the final 2011-planted garden crop on the first weekend of February, 2012.  Even without a homestead of our own, without a root cellar where I would store the potatoes, carrots, squash and turnips I would have grown to sustain us during the … Continue reading →

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Mum’s The Word Update

Posted on November 21, 2011 by literarylee

Once upon a time in the distant recesses of garden history, those heady, hopeful, virile days of tilling soil and planting seed, I started 24 mum plants.  Each was simply a few inches of snipped chrysanthemum hope, dipped in a … Continue reading →

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Good Bye Mighty Okra Friends

Posted on November 14, 2011 by literarylee

Another tough farewell, I pulled the okra stalks, once lush, tall, proud bearers of pounds of okra, now frost bitten, dried shells of their former glory.  I hated to say good bye, but I couldn’t bear to see them like … Continue reading →

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Perfection

Posted on November 1, 2011 by literarylee
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I Dig Sweet Potatoes

Posted on October 28, 2011 by literarylee

I dig them in the garden, but I don’t like eating them.  I never have and I’m guessing I never will.  Too bad for me, I’ve been told, missing out on such a sweet and healthy treat. This was Mrs. … Continue reading →

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Of Leeks, Cucumber Memories and a Clean Fall Garden

Posted on October 25, 2011 by literarylee

Visited Smith on Sunday, a fine, Fall afternoon, to dig sweet potatoes and couldn’t believe what all else was ready, too.  I picked a half dozen honorable Anaheims, a mildly hot pepper we pickle and like for cooking because it … Continue reading →

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Garden Mystery Solved

Posted on October 18, 2011 by literarylee

Last Christmas my aunt, who works in a garden shop, gave me a brown paper bag full of expired seeds, packets packaged to be sold in 2010.  Never mind that most seeds are viable for two, three, four years and … Continue reading →

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Tomato Friends, Farewell!

Posted on October 11, 2011 by literarylee

I bid a fond farewell to one of the smash hits of the garden this season, the now nearly bare tomato vines.  The fun (maybe the best word to describe my tomato year) began last Christmas when I received the … Continue reading →

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October 7: Okra, Green Beans and a Sweet Pepper

Posted on October 10, 2011 by literarylee

Maybe it’s no big deal, but I want to note how late I keep harvesting garden produce I planted this summer.  The other evening for supper we enjoyed a sweet pepper, garlic, onion, green bean, butternut squash stir fry over … Continue reading →

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Fall Display

Posted on October 6, 2011 by literarylee

I think I’ll blame my mother. O.K., maybe not blame.  How about attribute or credit?  Or thank.  Every October, I like making a little arrangement of autumn items I call my fall display.  I do it partly because I love … Continue reading →

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