Learning to See the Beauty of Nature in Our Gardens
Do you grow vegetables at home? If so, I’m sure you don’t welcome wildlife into your veggie patches. Rabbits, groundhogs, deer, slugs, you name it, there’s some animal just waiting to devour your plantings and destroy all your hard work. Fencing (or a resident dog on duty 24/7) is usually the only way to keep [...]
“Now’s the time to plant those,” said the clerk at the feed store, as I slid a half-pound of tiny pearl-onion-sized bulbs into a paper bag. “Good to know,” I said. I wasn’t lying. I have never quite figured out vegetables, coming at gardening from the I-want-one-of-every-native-plant side as I have. I try to make [...]
I originally thought about calling this “Planning A Beautiful Vegetable Garden” in keeping with, y’know, the theme of the site and all. Then I said “Let’s not kid ourselves.” Then I laughed. Then I poured several fingers of whiskey into my coffee and cried for a bit. Such is my relationship with vegetable gardening. Baker [...]
One of the things I love the most about our beautiful wildlife garden is taking a few minutes each day to just sit quietly outside and observe. Finches flitting among the fading sunflowers snitching seeds, jays screeching as they swoop to steal the last of the dried corn, chipmunks and mice scurrying among the rock [...]
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