Whoever said something had to be complicated to be useful never got his or her hands on a dibbler.  This most basic garden tool, really just a souped-up stick sharpened to a point, fulfills an indispensable role for certain garden planting chores.  The catalogs advertise it as a bulb-planting implement, but I like it much […]

Way back when at the beginning of the year, I wrote a post about pre-nuclear potatoes, the latest thing in spuds.  These things, at least by name alone, seemed potent, exotic, perhaps even dangerous.  I was hooked, if not only by the name then by the promise of huge, mutant-like yields (without radioactive exposure!).  I got […]