The  Intrepid Urban Farmer 

As you may remember when we met here before, I had received my annual embarrassment of seed catalogues. And, instead of getting down to...

The planning commences! Most of the seed catalogues have arrived and are countering the gray boredom of being inside. This is the first...

I have always been a cat lover. From the first time that someone dumped off a load of sore-eyed kittens in front of our house when I was...

It’s that time of year when the big event, Garden 2018, is in its nascent stages. The seed has been ordered and received. As usual, I...

The human mind is an interesting thing. You can do anything with it you’d like. You can decide to be depressed, happy, sick, miserable,...

Mother nature is playing tricks on us. It’s the end of February and it’s sixty degrees outside! This is a cruel, cruel carrot to...

Twenty-nine catalogues!! Unbelievable. I started receiving this bale of paper, in fits and starts, beginning right before Christmas. ...

A new year ahead. New possibilities and new directions, not just in gardening, but in life, as well. Gardening, as always, is my haven. ...

Yesterday, I completed the very important annual business of sorting through the landfill-enriching stack of seed catalogues I received. ...

Winter brings with it a time of indoor contemplation. I spoke about this in my last column. I have been mulling over the successes and...

To all appearances, the garden is asleep. It’s been tilled. The straw and newspaper I like to use as a mulch is blending with the quiet...

Well, Mother Nature certainly has been puckish this year. At the beginning of the season, Winter was mild, getting around was easy and...

I am a self-taught gardener. Now, you would think that since I grew up on an Ohio farm, I would have some foundation of knowledge about...

Right around Christmas, when I was up to my eyeballs and possibly drowning with the joys of celebrating the holiday season, my seed...

In Covington, Kentucky urban gardening has had a long, interesting history. From the earliest times of the late Nineteenth and early...

OK, the severe cold with its deep blanket of snow is mostly behind us this year. As a gardener, the first thing I want to know is this: ...