Okay, so here are the screen shots from the original Zillow listing for our new home - and new landscape.  The previous owners were quite a ...

A few folks have asked what happened to my erratic blogging.  It was just too sad to try to blog while we "shut down"  the farm...

One potato, two potatoes, three potatoes, four! You really know that you've become an obsessed  gardener when the plant-specific cata...

Once again, we're taking fig cuttings, hoping to get as many fig trees started in different locations as possible.  It's been two...

Okay, this isn't exactly a "gardening"  post - unless you count the world as our home garden - which I do.  This is a plea, a...

Behold my favorite of the winter fruits!  Persimmons! For years I grew Asian Persimmons ( Diospyros kaki ). 'Fuyu' was my parti...

Although it's customary to lay row cover fabric directly on the plants, close to the ground, I've used some other options in the ...

It's that magical time again - the loquat trees are in bloom. Inhale....... Seems odd in the fall to suddenly find the air perfum...

The puppies are obsessed with toads. As the cool weather moves in and the gardens thin out, the large toads that feasted out there all ...

Last big tomato harvest! About ten pounds, all Health Kick, the Roma/saladette type bred for super-high lycopene content.  These are going t...