It's that time of year again! We've harvested our pumpkins, such as they are, and covered our growing crop of broccoli and chard with gauzy spider webs. Ghosts and goblins fly o'erhead ...
Our garden almanac entries are few and far between, but our philosophy is that if you don't give up and just keep going, eventually you get into the swing of things and when you look back, all those ...
It's Memorial Day Weekend, and what a great way to start it! Looking out the window at our front yard, there is a strange motion going on in the deer netting around our blueberry bushes. ...
2016 was very good to all of us at the Edson Family Nest and Organic Garden! And the winter was no exception. Now as we role toward spring, it feels good to have got a number of projects ...
Not long after moving into our home about five years ago, we got a wysteria and put it in a pot by our front door, with visions of purple blossoms overhanging our front stoop. At first the ...
There is a significant shift we feel in the air this week, like fall is on the doorstep. In Northern California, this seems early. The past few years, to my recollection, were hot and ...
2016 was a very good year for our Sunflowers, which we like to grow along the side of our picket fence that borders on the drive way. The flowers add the dimension of height to our yard, and on ...
Welcome to the Edson Family Garden Almanac! This is our first entry. Over time, we'll probably revisit things we've learned and experienced in our yard that we want to remember and ...
