Our booth at the Reeds Spring Market, late July. It's hard to write about failure and despair in the garden. As gardeners, we start ...

Glass sculpture at the Dow Botanic Gardens, Midland, Michigan. This week's trip was to Midland, Michigan, to the annual conference of...

Buildings gone, neighborhoods flattened, and trees left as mere trunks. On Sunday we drove the couple of hours over to Joplin to view th...

Barbara Young and her cucumber crop. Josh and his mother, Barbara, made it back from Rhode Island yesterday. They'd driven my books ...

Heirloom varieties offer great flavor but have more disease problems than hybrids. In recent years heirloom tomatoes varieties have ...

People came and wandered through the garden, some took pictures, some made notes. It was fun having lots of blog followers and readers o...