Just in time

It looks like our garden lettuce will be ready just in time for dinner with friends Cathy and Mike tomorrow night. I think we’ll do the classic French salad - a leaf or two of lettuce drizzled with vinaigrette - with herb-crusted rack of lamb, and baby green beans. We’ll serve a Drouhin ‘05 Pinot [...]

Work+garden+1.5-mile walk+lecture+photos+blogging=life

After yesterday’s full schedule, Cassie and I got right up and accompanied Ms. Hubbard Gulker down the street to Stanford, where she commenced her 4-mile jog. For 17 years, Linda and I jogged ensemble, and it’s been a while since we even started out on the trail together. It was another small life bit [...]

Morning ritual, redux

Cassie and I walked a half-mile again this morning, and, like yesterday, the left leg tired most quickly, and there is a little back soreness - but not bad. I am considering trying to walk to the train station this evening which would get me up to a mile today - a decent distance for [...]

Long week finishes up in the garden

90 degrees almost, by the time I finished up a long week’s work efforts to the extent I could, took a walk (part of rehab therapy) and got into the garden for a little work (ditto). We put the pole beans in, got stakes ready for the tomato vines and watered a thirsty-looking bunch of [...]

An early date in the garden

Cassie and I spent about 20 minutes in the garden this mornig, drinking coffee and, I’m pleased to say, putting in 20-some lettuce plants. I usually doze for a half-hour after spouse Linda hits the road on her 4-mile jog, but it’s getting lighter in the morning, so today I got up with her.
By the [...]

The garden is born on a spring day

Sweet spouse took time out of a full morning (even Sundays are busy for her) to run me to a local nursery, Roger Reynolds, that had lots of good-looking vegetable seedlings. Lemon cucumbers, 4 kinds of tomatoes 2 kinds of leaf lettuce, pole beans and mariigolds came home, and 4 of 8 boxes - half [...]

The good things about edema

Are that I was moving slowly in the garden this AM, cleaning up after Cassie And noodling around,which allowed me to notice and figure out a valve combination that restores the long-dormant waterlines in my planter boxes. Woo hoo. This will save daily waterings, or, more precisely walking out to do daily waterings.
Now I need [...]

Dotcom Garden 2007 early spring plan

So, here’s what we think we’ll put into Dotcom Garden come March, if the weather et al. cooperates (we’ll start watching soil temperatures soon), and we’ve sent off for seeds and a seed starter so we can have some seedlings ready to go when conditions are right.
Cassie and I got more done in the Garden [...]

More M8 snaps and Dotcom Garden prep…

A neighbor’s trees made a pretty scene against the winter sky as Cassie and I made our way on our 1.8 mile loop this AM.
Then we were off to Dotcom Garden, where we dug the chicken manure - 1/2 sack per box, into the 3 planters we tilled yesterday. We also took a picture or [...]

Dotcom garden first steps, and a cool new machine

We had been searching for a tool just like this: a 6-inch wide, 1/3 HP electric tiller, to help with the hard annual job of prepping Dotcom Garden - digging out the dense accumulation of roots that grow up into the boxes from below. Surrounding trees are the culprits I think - it used [...]

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