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Ecological Pest Control II: Soil Biodiversity
Where We Have Been New readers following my philosophy of organic pest control can click here for links to the entire series as well as for a brief synopsis of the argument as it has evolved in the...
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The Organic Purity Test
Brace yourself, gentle reader. The time for confession is at hand. I am coming out of the organic garden closet. I have used Round-Up. There it is. The cat is out of the bag and Santa has lost his...
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Sweat Gets in Your Eyes
I have always done the majority of my gardening during the spring and summer months. September usually finds me in a gardening postpartum funk. Green tomatoes linger on raggedy vines that straggle in...
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Catastrophe: a September Garden Progress Report
There’s nothing quite like coming home from a long, hard day’s work to find a tag on your doorknob from the water department telling you that the water main has ruptured… on *your* side of the meter....
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The Stoopid Autumn Gardener
1) Cole crops with… wait for it… white flies? 2) Cabbage and broccoli are far tastier to rabbits in the fall than in the spring. I want my hasenpfeffer! 3) If you’re going to grow 14 broccoli plants...
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The Season for Arboricide
A tree properly topped in autumn… Right around this time of year, landscaping and yard service companies start cruising my neighborhood. They come in search of easy prey: nice middle-class homeowners...
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Faith in February
It’s a cold, grey February in southern Illinois and my garden is an ugly expanse of soggy forlorn. Waiting chores and half-assed un/finished landscaping projects clutter my vision as I stand at the...
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The Rainbow at the Bus Stop
I thought it was spam, and then a scam… A Nigerian prince offering riches beyond my wildest dreams. For a price. The e-mail read: “Dear shopper: You have received this notification from Prairie Moon...
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The Shade Meadow: Year-One
In the garden, as in life, endings and beginnings are easily confused, one for the other. If you recall, last fall, my front yard ended like this. The garden had been wounded. I was wounded. But...
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The Garden Inheritance
Early March is a part of my zone 6A garden season that involves venturing into the backyard for the first time since the autumn clean up. I am caught half-way between the hope that something green has...
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