This year one thing we grew successfully was chili peppers. We had what I’d call an overabundance of chili peppers—overabundance in...

Blossom end rot tries to crush my naive hopes for a trouble-free harvest.

Adding a raised bed for growing chilies meant confronting the swamp grass.

The Tree Guy tried to pin this one on me. I’m not buying it. After all, it was The Tree Guy who planted this zelkova in our yard many...

It's the scariest time of year in our garden.

I like it. She doesn’t. At all. I’m talking about ivy, Hedera helix, that green creeping thing that covers stuff whether you want it to...