My backyard is a harsh environment for plants, especially edibles. And I’m starting to wonder if it’s even possible to grow vegetables in it at all, much less organically. Take these creole tomato bushes below for instance. There are two in a huge container of perfect soil, and they’ve reached about 5′ high, but not [...]

I’m off on a photo adventure now so today’s post is light. Here’s some pics of my poor Dwarf Japanese Maple trees. As is evident, they don’t belong in this climate, but I didn’t know that when I got them. They don’t like really high temperatures or sunlight (they grow beautifully in the pacific northwest), [...]