Practical advice & moral support for the small-scale gardener
Very little goes as planned in gardening. Weather and other mysterious natural forces conspire to thwart human hubris, as they should. But this year, miracle of miracles, my spring bulbs turned out exactly as I had dared to dream. My daffodils fulfilled a specific vision I’d been harboring for a couple years. On a walk around the…
Happy Vernal Equinox! This has been a historically wet and chilly winter in the Bay Area, and it looks like more clouds and showers are in store. But, at least I know that from tomorrow, March 20 until the summer solstice, every day will be longer than the last. I never fully appreciated spring until I started appreciating plants;…
My first attempt last year at growing spring bulbs in a pot failed miserably. I purchased ten tulip bulbs from the hardware store, dutifully followed instructions (or so I thought), and they all withered and died almost as soon as they’d sprouted. What did I do wrong? I had a few theories and tried to…