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Breakfast on the porch?  Maybe we should finish working with the tomatoes first. Such a beautiful morning... Ed opens the front door. What...

In glancing over the photos for this day you'll think -- is it all about flowers now? Yes. Now is the time for flowers. [By t...

Out on the porch, in the late afternoon, the air is still. Warm, very warm. A tonic after the cold pre-spring. A gift, really.  No big winds...

At 4 a.m. Ed asks -- should we look at the thermometer? No, I don't want to know! A few minutes later I change my mind: alright, I wan...

The forecast for the second night of the unusual cold just keeps getting worse. This afternoon, I read what no hasty gardener wants to read ...

A blustery day. The kind you associate with the month of March. Then you'd say -- oh, this isn't so bad for March. Now, you just wa...

You could say we're working both ends of the weather stick: on the one hand, we're forging ahead with May plantings. On the other ha...

Rain. Good. Work time. Indoor time. While the flowers and plants outside thrive. Well, maybe. Let's start at the beginning. Bre...