An Experiment in Scotch

So in my trav­els through the inter­net and gar­den­ing web­sites and forums, I stum­bled across Per­mies. From there, I learned about Hugelkul­tur which is a way to build raised beds using old wood that even­tu­ally rots away all forest-like into what is sup­pos­edly an extremely drought tol­er­ant gar­den bed. Those words “drought tol­er­ant” caught my …

Week­end event: Heard Museum plant sale, first week­end of the McK­in­ney Farmer’s Mar­ket Week­end tasks: Added 2000 pounds of soil and com­post to the north veg­gie bed to plant it with toma­toes and pep­pers; planted every­thing we bought at the Heard Museum plant sale includ­ing bee balm, mex­i­can hat, laven­der, hot and spicy oregano, fen­nel, …

But not that kind of herb, the NSA is out in force these days mak­ing sure the good cit­i­zens of Amer­ica aren’t par­tak­ing in any­thing par­tic­u­larly fun to off­set the ongo­ing eco­nomic mis­ery in their lives. No, these are herbs more like oregano, corian­der, sage and pars­ley all of which we planted on Sun­day. The …

Feb­ru­ary 10th, we set out the early gar­den for the spring. The weather here has been mild to say the least with the excep­tion of a week long cold snap in Jan­u­ary. We’ve had very few freezes, maybe 2 in all of Feb­ru­ary alone, no more than 10 for the win­ter I don’t think. Even …