Open View Gardens

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Coyote on the lawn Some people think my experiment in ecosystem gardening is on the verge of getting out of hand. First it was coyotes on the lawn, bears at the feeder. Pretty soon the house will become the fields and the woods. Heck, I’ve already brought in grapevines, grasses, and wildflowers to decorate the […]

Lately, the weather has ricocheted between super hot and steamy (90F) and downright cold (40F), rainy and intensely sunny, still and wildly windy. It’s remarkable that the garden is doing as well as it is thus far.  Indeed, the last two weeks of June had me scurrying about harvesting armloads of mint, dill, cilantro and […]

For my next newspaper column (in a couple of weeks), I plan on writing about abundance–even in an early season northern garden–about how so much is ready for harvest, almost too much: plants bolting, plants trying to bolt, plants ready overnight, and how working within that abundance hour by hour opens up perspectives beyond mine […]