6/13/14

Another beautiful lettuce. I did have my lettuce featured on the cover of a book one time. A lady was looking at a head of Batavian lettuce, a crisp green-leaf lettuce at my Grower's market booth in Ashland. Something about the way she was looking at it made me tell her she could have it. Her gaze was enough; I didn't need money. She mentioned something about taking pictures for a book, but I didn't really care. Much later, like 16 months, certainly the next summer, she brought me her book with my lettuce on the cover and the chapter headings. I was so surprised. The book is called Green For Life.

It contains true stories of how folks got well by making and consuming green drinks including common weeds. She was one of the first books purporting green drinks that I saw. My 15 minutes of fame(so far...)

Diary 6/10/14

My Tatiana rose bush has gone crazy. I am not sure what I can do about it until after this season. It is a thorny climber and a ever-blooming heirloom, that is not a hybrid made of two roses, root stock and top. It is beautiful and smells sweet-not as sweet as the honeysuckle though!

Diary 6/9/14

CAULIFLOWER SELFIE

Diary 6/8/14

There are fairies sleeping in my garden!

Diary 6/3/14

Busy day tying up loose ends, but everywhere there are more! Looks like this time the grass that is mowed will not be back, but dry down for the summer. Spring flowers are finishing up and summer bulbs are up and making flower buds. This is when my garden in the yard needs a big make-over as the poppies and the peonies are finished blooming and look like a mess. In one corner of the oldest greenhouse, the one I am ignoring, this calla lily waited for my attention. I may have to move it to one of the greenhouses I am taking care of.

Diary 6/2/14

The powers that be, I suppose the state had declared fire season in our county. That is early. With a dry winter, little or no snow pack, and Spring rains, all the signs point to a dangerous situation. Around here the grass is five feet tall. In the wild places no one is going to mow it, one of the few arguments for range cattle. The ground is parched with no run off and low water tables. Global warming may not be the problem as much as global drying.

crazy lush

Diary 6/1/14

JUNE! The days are definitely getting longer, three weeks to the longest day. I can see by how quickly everything is growing. Hoping for summer rains to quell the thirst of the forest against fire danger. Last year we did have a few and it saved us from fires being as wide spread, though still a major one on the ridge. Meanwhile here, the grass is getting high enough to hay. The baby corn is loving the weather. It received its first watering yesterday.