How NOT To Make Comfrey Fertilizer

This post originally had a different title. In the interest of full disclosure which is our informal policy here, after I actually made the fertilizer, I had to add the NOT. It all began well. I cut a lot of comfrey and packed it into a five-gallon bucket. I left it,...

Tomatillo Sunset

We live in a region of the country with no grand vistas; mountain ranges or ocean views. It is flat-ish, with a few softly rolling hills and many trees which obscure any sort of long-distance sightlines. I’ve visited mountains and oceans and they are...

Patience Rewarded

Several native persimmon trees stood in a small grove in the yard of the house in which I grew up. They were messy in the fall of the year when the fruit was ripe and littered the ground. I remember well the unique sensation of stepping on persimmons in bare feet,...

Help With Weed ID

Every year I sow seeds of several plants I’ve only read about and never before seen. Medicinal herbs in particular. Sometimes this leads me to err on the side of caution when an unfamiliar plant begins to grow in the general vicinity of those new plantings.  I...