Posts under ‘Other People’s Gardens’

Late last week, an email came through from a coworker asking for a plantsitter for the week. She and her family would be on vacation, and the last time she left her two plants for a week sans an official watering agent, they nearly keeled over from dehydration. I will admit not immediately hitting reply [...]

My coworker, Adam, was around the corner talking to Dave, the security guard, when I spotted the garden cart. Pots. Plants. Soil. Best delivery ever. “Stay away from my trees!” Dave yelled at me. “I’m just taking a picture,” I said, from my crouch in the corner. “Where’s this going?” Adam asked. “Third floor,” Dave [...]

I could tell you that I’m not doggedly stubborn, but that would be a lie that my parents would loudly and happily debunk. Most of my friends would happily join them in said debunking. And although I know a ton of people who would gladly attempt to debunk this particular statement as well, I’m going [...]

Tomatoes need cages or stakes. It is a fact of life, and it is what it is. They get tall, they get sprawly, and there’s nothing worse than coming out in the morning to the garden and discovering that a heavy, ripening tomato… (Sorry. I needed a moment there. And what I really need is [...]

A year ago today, I steered my aging Camry into Oakland, loaded down with Asahi Cat and everything I deemed critical until I could actually get the rest of my possessions moved out to California from Iowa. It’s been an amazing year since I moved into my new apartment, filled with countless adventures, food discoveries [...]

If you had told me a few years ago that I’d ever suffer from planting envy, I would have called you crazy. Planting? Envy? Whatever. But now it’s been more than a year since I crouched down in my very own plot of land and said goodbye to the plants. (I realize that very act [...]

I’ve been on the road a lot lately, to one place or another, but most of that on-the-roading has been for fun and personal reasons. This? Not a bad thing. (Thank you, United, for your Double EQM promotion.) Today, I am officially noting for the record that I am in Ocean City, Md., which means [...]

For a happy-go-lucky girl, I do spend a fair amount of time imagining disaster. If the Big One hits while I’m sleeping, no books or heavy decorative items will fall on me—I already thought about that and hung nothing over my bed when I moved here. I still vary my regular route from time to [...]

I’ve been spending a lot of time on Flickr lately, engrossed in a project to use my camera as a visual journal of 2009, and the site recently introduced the Flickr Clock, which provides narrow bands of color plucked from videos uploaded to the Flickr Clock group, and arranges them along a running timeline to [...]

On Sunday afternoon, I returned to the scene of my planting back in December. Although I’d seen pictures that demonstrated actual seedling growth, I did have some trepidation, imagining the bed that I planted to be barren (again, I had seen pictures of radish seedlings, but they were up close and, well, PhotoShop is a [...]