Apr 1, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – April 1 Sometimes it takes awhile to attain a certain level of understanding…but I maintain that it’s worth the wait. I now know that the bunches of seedlings I see throughout my garden, the greedy blue jays, and the random sunflowers in my...
Mar 31, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – March 31 I am watching the buds on my trees closely, because they can indicate the hatching of one of this area’s nemeses, the winter moth caterpillar. Soon they will emerge and start eating our maples, blueberries, apples, oaks and other...
Mar 30, 2010 | growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – March 30 Today was too stormy to work in the garden, but I could have used some meditative weeding, that’s for sure. Did you ever have a day that seems to have a theme to it? Say the morning starts with the carton of eggs falling out of the...
Mar 29, 2010 | Garden Prayer, Life's Gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – March 29 It rained for much of the day here in eastern Massachusetts. The local news warns people who live in flood plains to be ready to evacuate their homes. The soil is fully saturated, so the rainfall won’t be able to soak into the ground....
Mar 28, 2010 | Inspiration, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – March 28 On February 18th I wrote about how much I miss my homegrown vegetables in the winter, and my idea to grow salad greens in my shed. Today, I’m rejoicing that this scheme worked. We’ve been picking fresh greens for dinner for the last...
Mar 27, 2010 | Garden Prayer, growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – March 27 I have to get this posted fairly quickly, because in thirty minutes it will be Earth Hour, and I will turn off my laptop and all of the lights in the house. My husband jokingly asked if we could use our computers on battery, and I...
