• My usual quip is that rocks and stones are my first crops of spring. There’s something about the freezing and thawing of soil, I suppose, that nudge them to the soil’s surface. Not this year, for two reasons. First, our community garden had from 4 to 6 inches of loam […]

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  • My perennial sage, the culinary kind, made it through the mild winter like a real trooper. It should have – it had bulked up the summer before. And it’s current state of heftiness causes me concern. It overshadowed and – lets face it, outright killed my rosemary. Left unchecked it […]

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  • So, this thing. Amazing, huh? It’s a plant – a real plant. Not a stunt double for Audrey for Little Shop of Horrors. This is an Amorphophallus titanum, better known as the Titan Arum or the Corpse Plant. Yup, Corpse Plant, because it’s smelly. More on that later. The Titan […]

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