Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along word that the keeper is declaring war on the rabbit that is invading Phyllis’s raised garden and eating the tomatoes that the keeper had plans for. The keeper remembers asking his aged father on one of dad’s later birthdays what he had …
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Category:Gardening
Kickass and Phyllis’ Garden
Attribution: Arizcraf, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in lauding Phyllis as she prepares her small, raised garden in the Vista West courtyard, and he apologizes for having missed “Official Naked Gardening Day” which is the first Saturday in May. In an effort to catch up, he …
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Harvest of Friends
Artwork by Micheal DiMilo By Geoff Carter Last February, the historic first meeting of our Tomato Club commenced in the backroom of the Waterford Wine Company. Snow was on the ground, the temperature was below freezing, and spring was nowhere in sight, yet that didn’t stop us from bringing our seed catalogs, our ideas, our …
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Kickass and Naked Gardening Day
Tainted Fruit, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that in the keeper’s inability to keep up with the flow of things, he missed “Naked Gardening Day,” even though he has been witnessing Phyllis’s–fully-clothed–gardening preparations for several weeks. The keeper mentioned the day briefly to Phyllis, but she was …
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New Growth
Artwork by Rae and Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Typically, during the second week of March, I plant the seeds for my garden, mostly tomatoes and peppers, in the depths of my basement. This year, we’ve just finished digging out from a winter storm that dumped over ten inches of snow on us, but down …
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