July 15, 2026
This is my first post! Welcome
Read the story →Wander around
Four rooms in the house.
The beds
Garden
Bed maps and every crop growing right now, from alliums to zinnias.
Recipes
Water-bath tomatoes, fermented dills, apple butter, and everything to put by.
Month by month
Almanac
What's due in the beds this month — tasks by season, plus notes as they happen.
The wild edge
Field Guide
Native plants, pollinators, and birds of these three acres — vetted by our resident ecologist.
The season
“The tomato cages went up before the tomatoes needed them — which is exactly on time. Everything comes in its order.”
— from the notebook, mid-June
From the almanac
October in the beds.
The season’s to-do list. Checked when I’ve logged the work.
Oct 10–25: PLANT GARLIC + mulch 4"
Harvest winter squash before hard frost, cure 10 days
Plant tulips/daffodils; pre-frost tomato sweep
Dig dahlia tubers after frost blackens foliage; cut asparagus ferns
Nothing checked off yet this october.
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