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Today I was busy with planting and harvesting shoots and greens and delivering them to various spots around the island.Then I picked up another load of big heavy bags of seed from the post office. Mostly seeds for pea shoots, sunflower shoots and various microgreens, about 150lbs. of them.I’m glad that I’ve found a supplier  [. . .]

There aren’t many flowers out in the garden these days so it’s nice to have this beautiful white amaryllis blooming indoors now. I potted up quite a few bulbs last fall for pre Christmas sales in reusable and compostable pots. If you got one of these from me before Christmas, here’s some info on the  [. . .]

I enjoyed reading this article “Why Bother?” so I’m posting it here….an excerpt….by Michael Pollan from The New York Times magazine, April 20, 2008: Have you looked into the eyes of a climate scientist recently? They look really scared. Whatever we can do as individuals to change the way we live at this suddenly very  [. . .]

In early September the “Autumn Joy” sedum blooms are beginning to turn pink and the bees all go crazy for it. If you want to make sure you have food for the bees in your garden in early fall plant some Autumn Joy….they love it!! Both honey bees and bumble bees, butterflies and other little  [. . .]

The cardoons are blooming beautifully in the garden these days and the bees love them. This artichoke flower bud is not the one we’re accustomed to eating…it’s the midrib of the leaf that’s eaten here. I’ve only grown these for the amazing dramatic look of the plant and for it’s flowers that are lovely dried.  [. . .]

So for every lovely long tapered carrot like the ones on the left, the garden is producing another troubling specimen like the ones on the right. Most gardening how-to books say this happens to carrots when there’s too much nitrogen in the soil or when there are big clods of clay or rock in the  [. . .]