Little Gem Lettuces Race Out the Gate

  Little Gems, meet your new view, the mid-winter Portland cityscape.   Today, under winter’s cloudy skies, but reasonably warm nonetheless (snowless, too; sorry, NY, DC, etc), I planted lettuce starts on the rooftop…the very same that I started a mere 25 days ago in my January 1st ritual seeding to augur in a good new year.  Normally […]

The Best Winter Tenants

I was thinking about cover crops the other day, and suddenly the property owner in me had a realization: cover crops are like tenants.  I don’t know if you’ve ever rented property out, but I’m willing to bet that at some point on the arc of your adult life you were a renter.  No matter which side […]

Dispatches from the Winter Garden

An apology: Something happened to this post whereby much of it got underlined and nearly deleted.  At the risk of losing it entirely, I am keeping it as is.  Sorry for the inconvenience of having to view everything as if it were a book title. Winter parsley is an exalted version of its already-awesome self.   […]