Our gas stove does double-duty as a soil sample dryer.  The courtesy note hopefully prevents anyone’s actually digging in to the dish thinking is was some kind of Oreo-crumble dessert! Well, it’s seeding time, which means that it’s almost planting-out time, which means that it’s a good time to take a look at one’s soil (assuming […]

It’s mid-January, and I’m chomping at the bit to get the season going.  Ill health in my family during December preoccupied me and interrupted some of my usually steady winter attention on ordering seeds and such, but whether well or ill, able or disabled, the season marches on, and I am feeling that urge to get moving.  Normally […]

  I took advantage of some fine winter weather today (which in the Pac. NW could simply mean not raining, but today it was actually not merely not raining but positively sunny!) to get outside and perform some greenhouse repair.  This greenhouse that you see was one of the scores of 2013.  Someone I knew […]