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 business and making ...

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

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 about three years ol...

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 ordered an ungodly a...

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, elated, jealous, an...

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 dangle. I want to go outsi...

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

A new year ahead. New possibilities and new directions, not just in gardening, but in life, as well. Gardening, as always, is my haven. It’s my place to go...

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

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 failures of last sea...

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 nutrients, moisture...

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

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 gardening. I sort ...

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

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

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: What am I gonna get...