Strawberries are amazing things: technically they are not berries at all, but thickened stems, called receptacles. The little bits on the outsides are not actually seeds, but dry fruit (“achene”) that contain their own seeds. And unlike most other fruits, strawberries...
The lettuce seedlings jostle for space – leaves pushing up against each other like too many kids in the backseat of my car. I hate thinning the seedlings: plucking out life that looks so green and healthy. But I know that otherwise the plants will be stunted and...
To look at the garden now you would think it was dead and lifeless. We are accustomed to thinking of plants as if their being was embodied in their green and growing leaves. But it isn’t so, not really. The life of plants is in the root, not in the flesh. In perennial...
Gardens are made of water. It is literally the stuff of life of all growing things, filling and giving substance to cells and tissues and bodies great and small. At this time of year the garden’s living water is all on the move – if you stand outside in a quiet place...
Seeds went into the ground at the Cedar Ridge Farm in the past few weeks. Lettuce seed, so tiny it feels like chaff in the palm of your hand, beet seed all spiky and rough, and potato seed, which is really no seed at all, but chunks of the vegetable itself, dormant...
