Tag Archives: garden

Coleus Comeback

Posted on September 27, 2020 by Susanna J. Sturgis

It’s been a weird year for everything (understatement of the century), so not surprisingly my garden has been disappointing. The cherry tomato seedlings I bought looked spindly, and they pretty much lived up — or down — to their appearance, … Continue reading →

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Planting 2018

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Susanna J. Sturgis

I’ve blogged it a dozen times if I’ve blogged it once: I am not a gardener. (The record says I’ve blogged it more than once. For starters see “My Dinghy Garden” from 2011 and “Down in the Dinghy” from 2012.) … Continue reading →

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Is That You, Spring?

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Susanna J. Sturgis

Memorial Day be damned, I’ve been in total denial that the summer season — not summer, but the summer season — is upon us. Most of the time it’s been feeling like mid or late April. Yesterday I wore jeans and a … Continue reading →

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I Say It’s My Birthday

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Susanna J. Sturgis

. . . because it is, for another couple of hours. Some years I take my birthday off. This year I didn’t. I’m drowning in work. I can’t afford to take a day off — but I didn’t really want … Continue reading →

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Down in the Dinghy

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Susanna J. Sturgis

I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: I’m not a gardener. My paternal grandmother was a gardener. Not me. I also hate fresh fruits and vegetables. I’ve said that before too. But I like getting dirty. So I … Continue reading →

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Theme Park Farming

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Susanna J. Sturgis

Long time ago, like about 1988, I had this idea: build a Martha’s Vineyard theme park in Falmouth. People could loll on virtual beaches, buy picture postcards and Black Dog T-shirts, and thrill to a hair-raising simulated moped ride on … Continue reading →

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I Hate Fresh Fruits & Vegetables

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Susanna J. Sturgis

The other day X declared that she’d taken to her bed with raw spinach poisoning. A friend noted that X’s symptoms sounded suspiciously like those of the nasty stomach bug she herself had just gotten over, and she had not … Continue reading →

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’Tis the Season (at Last! Maybe?)

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis

Sure, the days were getting short and shorter and we’d had a couple of hard frosts and a few not-so-hard, but I couldn’t take approaching winter seriously as long as daytime temperatures were in the 60s (F) and people were … Continue reading →

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Samhain Passes

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis

Samhain is the pagan new year, the cross-quarter day that falls between the fall equinox and the winter solstice. It’s variously pronounced — I say “sah’-wen” — but if you want to keep calling it Halloween or All Hallows’ Eve, … Continue reading →

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Last Pesto of the Season

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis

Last Friday I finally got around to picking basil. It would be the last big picking of the season, so I’d put it off for several days. The nearly full four-cup measure sat on my counter for several days more. … Continue reading →

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