Happy New Year!

How to keep Santa's reindeer (and other deer) out of the vegetable garden? A couple of years ago, i pushed 10-foot tall rebar poles into...

The first day of winter is feeling like the first day of spring. Temperatures in the 40s. Slightly muddy dirt roads. A dusting of wet snow t...

My solstice party. It's always a task to move a convivial gathering out of our cozy candlelit house into winter coats and boots and down...

Today is winter solstice--a day of extremes--the shortest day, the longest night. The year 2011 has slipped away, never to return. Our life ...

My gardening is reduced to puttering in my solarium, which is crowded with houseplants. Yesterday i took cuttings of a leggy coleus, and the...

The bare ground is freezing now. With no snow cover, the frost begins t sink into the earth. Water, though is still not frozen. Heat recedes...