Husband . Wife . Garden
Welcome to the Eden of Garden in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
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Growing Really Slow Food
Asparagus is a practice in delayed gratification. Unlike lettuce — 25 days, wham! You’ve got a salad — growing asparagus takes YEARS. Years?!? I was hoping I hadn’t heard that right. Did the Boss really say we have to wait… Continue reading
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Garden Forensics
Even the best laid plans are no match for mother nature. (As it is in life, so it goes in the garden.) Each spring, as we get ready to migrate back to the UP, I get excited about returning to… Continue reading
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Panic Gardening
Apparently I’m not alone in feeling a special urgency about gardening this year. Toilet paper isn’t the only thing people are hoarding; seeds are also flying off the shelves. All of a sudden, everyone is a gardener. Fortunately, like the… Continue reading
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Planning for Abundance
We migrated back to the Eden of Garden three weeks later than usual this year. This typically would not be a big deal to me — May in the UP sucks. May in the UP is like going back in… Continue reading
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The 300-Ear Year
Every goal starts with a dream. The Boss’s dream is to grow 300 ears of corn in one season. To date, he has not reached this goal. Over several decades, he has come as close as 280. He has tried… Continue reading
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Put your butt in the seat and eat
“This food is the gift of the whole universe – the earth, the sky, and much hard work. May we live in a way that makes us worthy to receive it.” – Thich Nhat Hanh We have a big problem around here:… Continue reading
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Willy-nilly
Willy-nilliness will absolutely not be tolerated in the Eden of Garden. And this is a source of many a tense moment between the Boss and me. He is a carpenter and a builder with the mind of an engineer and… Continue reading
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Returning
Nothing says welcome home like the crunch of thousands of dead fly carcasses. Continue reading
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Gardening by the Moon
“Something stupendous takes place on the earth as a result of the full moon’s forces.” Rudolph Steiner One trick we use to make gardening more complicated is to plant by the moon. Specifically, we use the planetary positions to decide… Continue reading
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Bucking Fugs!
I know I gave the Boss a ton of shit for bringing in more dirt. But it turns out he is really smart because bugs are kicking our veggie garden’s ass. Yes, I realize sharing with bugs is part of… Continue reading
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