Life In The Slow Lane
Posted in Gardening on Feb 23rd, 2010
When it comes to most fashionable trends, I confess to being way behind much of the time. I don’t own an Ipod or an Iphone. My wife and I even went to prepaid cell phones because we don’t use them enough to justify paying monthly fees. And no need to worry about me texting and [...]
Posted in Gardening, Misc Rants on Feb 2nd, 2010
It’s hard to go a day without running into something, somewhere that claims to be “New and Improved”. Supermarket shelves are loaded with such items, which in many cases are the same old sad, tired products repackaged in smaller containers (but selling for the same price).
And software designers just can’t resist the urge to add [...]
Posted in Gardening, Misc Rants on Dec 31st, 2009
It’s hard to believe another year has passed. When I was a child, I couldn’t wait for time to fly by. I was always anxious for Christmas to come, for summer recess to arrive, to get my Learner’s Permit and start driving, and so on. Now that I am older, I find I am in [...]
Posted in Gardening on Nov 5th, 2009
Now is good time for me to review the performance of some of the new vegetable plants I tried this year, while it’s all still fresh in my mind. Some of the new-for-2009 standouts include Gourmet and Snapper bell peppers and Pingtung Long eggplants. The Snapper peppers were huge, and good at both the green [...]
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An organic gardener shares his thoughts about gardening, nature, food and being self-sufficient.
