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July’s Garden – There is Still Time to Plant
Steamy July is later than backyard gardeners usually think of sowing seeds. You look out at all the telescoping lettuce and spinach and yellow broccoli blossoms and promise yourself to… Read more »
January, after the Storm of 1982
San Lorenzo Valley, Santa Cruz Mountains The great storm of ’82 is still very much an active force in our hearts and minds. I find myself daily continuing with thoughts… Read more »
Muddy Garden
February…. It’s harder than usual to write about gardening, since my soil is actually mud, and rumor has it that we’ll be having rains most of the time until the… Read more »
Thoughts on a Winter Garden
We’ve certainly taken the plunge into juicy winter. So far it’s come gently. The persimmons still glow on the branches, but the leaves have all dropped off in this slow… Read more »
Y2K, Ready or Not? Plant Now!
At my work selling seeds to nurseries and garden centers all over the country, I’ve been getting phone calls from people wanting to stock up on seeds, particularly open-pollinated varieties… Read more »
Plant Yourself a Spring Garden Party!
Well, once the rains finally stopped in mid-June, we did indeed get some summer weather. The kind where you get really careful about opening up all the windows at night… Read more »
August’s Garden 1981
By the end of August in Boulder Creek, the garden can be totally renewed and refilled. In fact, it must be planted up by this time in order for the… Read more »
Reminiscences from Camp Joy Apprentice Wendy Krupnick, 1987
It was a difficult year for me, (1987) personally; I think I went to a therapist briefly for the first time that year. I had been living in the mid-peninsula… Read more »
Reminiscences from Camp Joy Apprentice Pat Lovejoy, 1972-1973
I think I was there 72-73, or was it 71-72? Campers there were: Freddie and Eddie, Douglas, Krissy, Michael Stusser, Pancho, Charlie Stern, Susannah, You, Jimmy, Leifin was about 2,… Read more »
Reminiscences from Camp Joy Apprentice Mary Burke, 1974-1980
Let’s see— I moved into the redwood circle in June or July 1973 and stayed until I moved to Vancouver Island that fall. Then my mom died the following April… Read more »