Posts under ‘Genie’

So, I have come to the point where I can’t tell any more stories without introducing you, Good People of the Internet, to someone new. To be fair, he’s not so new to me (though he makes every day feel new, which is, perhaps, better than his actually being new). But until now (admittedly because [...]

It has been an awfully long time — nearly five months — since I showed up here at The Inadvertent Gardener. It’s been something of a crazy ride — a new relationship, a move, a book project that got underway and then stagnated again, and a whole mess of other stuff — but it’s time [...]

I have started and stopped this post approximately 3,042 times in the past three days. Say it? Don’t say it. Say it? Don’t say it. It’s all a little exhausting. But it’s time to spit out what I’ve been somewhat loathe to actually put on the page. It’s time, for a whole variety of reasons, [...]

This morning, I breakfasted on tomatoes. This wouldn’t ordinarily be a big deal. After all, it is still tomato season in California. I’ve been breakfasting on tomatoes since they showed up at the markets this year. In fact, this time of year, it’s not odd in the slightest for me to have more tomatoes on [...]

Before I even left for Burning Man, I was concerned about one of the tomato plants. There was a single branch hanging down, bearing one very green, very heavy tomato. This struck me as a Very Bad Thing – the weight was certain to snap the branch at some point. But getting ready to attend [...]

Once upon a time, there was a gardener, and she wasn’t actually very good at gardening, and she also, apparently, wasn’t very good at writing all the well-intentioned posts she had on her list to write. The end. Translation: I have much to share with you, good readers of the Interwebz, but life has been [...]

I’m excited and honored to announced that one of my recent posts, A healing garden and an affirmation, has been selected as a finalist in the BlogHer ’10 Voices of the Year competition in the Opinion-Editorial category. The piece will be honored as part of a gala event and art auction benefiting the Nature Conservancy [...]

Back in the day, I wore flip-flops to garden, even at the risk of breaking an ankle in situations of rabbits and chasing and throwing of things. That was then, and this is now. Though I live in California, at the point when I moved into this apartment, I indeed did not have the requisite [...]

After all the drama with hauling and drilling and casters and dirt, it was time for what is, every time, the least dramatic, easiest part of the process. The tomatoes. I planted them. With four seedlings, it seemed reasonable to put two in each wine barrel, but that left room for other things. I still [...]

I have well documented that the volume and weight of dirt confounds me. I never know what the right size pot is going to be, I don’t know how much dirt should go in it, and I clearly have no idea how to load a car. But when I went to get the dirt for [...]