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First Salad

Posted on April 4, 2011 by literarylee

Yesterday evening we ate the first salad from the garden.  It’s hard to imagine greens (and reds) being sweet until, on an early spring day around the first of April, you harvest lettuce and spinach and endive, wash, toss into … Continue reading →

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Spinach in February

Posted on March 8, 2011 by literarylee

Last October I was chatting at the market with a local farmer who sells herb plants and greens, like lettuces, endive, and arugula, to plant in the garden.  I asked if she thought it was too late to plant lettuce … Continue reading →

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Wanton Optimism Update (With a piece of humble pie on the side)

Posted on February 27, 2011 by literarylee

Yeah, right.  Spinach!  They’re probably just little weeds, I thought. My wife called me Friday.  I was at work and she was at Jones, one of my two gardens.  She wanted to know if there was anything she could do … Continue reading →

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More Wanton Optimism: Spring Garden 2010

Posted on February 15, 2011 by literarylee

March 7, 2010 I committed a random act of optimism today.  Barely a week after the end of February I planted seeds in my gardens.  The day was perfect for such behavior, the warm sun sowing its own seeds in … Continue reading →

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Publicly Committing Acts of Wanton Optimism

Posted on February 13, 2011 by literarylee

February 13, 2011 I planted seeds today.  Outside.  In two of my three gardens.  It’s not even March yet.  It’s barely the middle of February, a fact my inner sense of what’s done and not in a garden can hardly … Continue reading →

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