Posts Tagged: Garden 2013
Garden 2013: The Last Of The Parsnip Crop
Posted by on Thursday, April 25, 2013 in - 1 comment
One of my favorite things to do is to not do something. Last year, I planted parsnips, onions and carrots in the square of soil by the front door. The carrots got dug up in early October and the onions were lifted a month earlier. But five parsnips were left in the ground all winter. Where they …
Garden 2013: It's Still March But Planting's Begun
Posted by on Saturday, March 30, 2013 in - leave a comment
It has begun. A sunny Saturday reaching up towards maybe 7F today. I took down the cold frame that sat out back all winter and found one lone red lettuce plant growing along with a fair number of carrots. Leeks survived, hilled, out back and out front. Parsnips are starting to poke up enough green …
Again, The Most Wonderful Day Of Every Year
Posted by on Monday, March 4, 2013 in - leave a comment
Previous celebrations: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. The snow lays about in dirty lumps congesting into ice before it melts. Baseball is close now. SO close I can watch spring games on the iPhone. 450 onion seeds have sprouted in my basement. Under a grow lamp. One sole …
This Month's Storm Of The Century
Posted by on Thursday, February 7, 2013 in - leave a comment
When did being panicked by storms become so common? Maybe its being raised on the North Atlantic but is every big blizzard really Snowmageddon? Nothing too panicky in the Buffalo forecast discussion this evening. Maybe we all pine for a snow day. A day when then banks are too big. The ice too …
