There was a time when I thought adding lots of mulch to poor quality soil would make for good quality soil. But it didn’t work out that way… What happened was that the 2 inch layer of mulch was cooking in the Summer sun, below which a thick layer of poor quality soil remained, impervious to … Continue reading
Annie objects to the smell; I wish I had become an environmental engineer. From the top of the hill to the left we see a concrete slab where the organics are dumped. They will be mixed with a portion of the mountains of yard waste staged to the right and then piled up to form … Continue reading
Hi folks, just a quick message welcoming Rebekah Smith as a fellow author on Groundtoground.org. Along with myself and Paul Wyer, this little gardening blog now has three contributors. And this is a great thing 🙂 Why we need more voices on this site. There are so many stories out there that need to be shared, … Continue reading
With a heave and a thud, I heard the 50-pound bin of coffee crack. So that’s what’s costing me almost seven dollars a pop? I’d have to tell Rachel that I had discovered the culprit and to be more careful when she unloaded the grounds from the car. While cold weather makes the bins brittle … Continue reading
So you need food to eat in your forest garden, and you are growing all the regulars – apple, pear, citrus, fig, and so on. Then your shrub level (using Patrick Whitefield’s 3 level arrangements as per his How to Make a Forest Garden), is hard at work. All those empty spaces are getting filled with … Continue reading
The breeze is steady and thick with cotton that blankets my garden. An errant puff sticks to my housecoat and I imagine cottonwoods springing up from my arms. The seeds cling to my toast. They land in my coffee. I sneeze. Suddenly, a rabbit makes a break for it, bolting to safety under the deck … Continue reading
I was excited to discover Ground to Ground and look forward to contributing to it, although I do have a confession to make. I am not a gardener. While I did serve on a task force that established one of the largest community gardens in St. Paul and I do maintain a small plot there, … Continue reading
