Our September storms brought record rains and an early end to summer.  Tomatoes swelled, cracked and rotted on the vine.  Basil browned as if burned.  Chickweed sensed wintry weather and began its carpet caper, but thankfully October arrived and said, “Now you just hold it right there.  These people need some more sun, lest they think winter […]

Well, now we don’t have to worry about how we’re going to root prune this thing next spring! Though we’d probably all like to think of ourselves as record breakers, there’s little comfort in breaking weather records.  Portland put one into the books this month as we closed September off with over 6 inches of […]