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gooseberry lore (win a dessert cookbook); fighting bindweed, prostrate spurge
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The sunflowers with their hot-colored faces tell me it's high summer, but the thermometer says a mere high-40s at night. Good sleeping weather, as the saying goes -- and also better by day for mowing and more. Not sure what the tomatoes think, but the gooseberries and the weeds? Both are very happy! Speaking of which...
gooseberry lore, with the beekman boys
One of the first fruits that Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge planted when they took ownership of historic Beekman 1802 farm in Sharon Springs, New York: gooseberries. Now the city-turned-country pair known as the Fabulous Beekman Boys are having a bumper gooseberry year. Josh joined me on the radio and in an interview on the blog to talk about that and other aspects of "The Heirloom Life."
That's the subject of the duo's breakfast slide lecture August 17 to help celebrate my next garden Open Day. I've pre-ordered "The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Dessert Cookbook" (due out in September) to share, so click here for a chance to win -- and some gooseberry lore, recipes and more. 
weed wars continue: hedge bindweed, spotted spurge Not all weeds are aliens, and at the moment I'm actually doing battle with two that are technically native American plants, but very unwelcome nonetheless. I'm currently uninviting spotted spurge (top right), a low-growing Euphorbia relative. At the other extreme of height, I'm asking hedge bindweed (Calystegia sepium, formerly classified as a Convolvulus, top left) to please let go its counterclockwise twining grasp on some shrubs and ornamental grasses here. Out, out damn weeds! The details. miss it last time? more timely stories: |
