Garden Musings

Weather report:  High 60ºF.  Ground temperature 55ºF.  Mild north wind, mostly overcast. When the wind is coming from the north blowing so...

Fourth of July found ProfessorRoush out digging up some early potatoes.  I only planted 10 potato halves this year, to provide just a hill o...

Just in time, I got the debris cleared off the asparagus bed today.  See the new white shoot just breaking the soil in the center of the pic...

In my "revisionist" gardening mode, for the first time in years, I am attempting some indoor seed-starts.  Normally, I'm a dis...

Plank. Plunk.  Plink. Tink. Thunk.  Thuuuunk.  Treading carefully and repeatedly bending at my waist in the massive maze of vines, I channel...

This blog entry is absolutely not about what you think it is.  Well, okay, it may be about what you think it is, but as a blog with G-rated ...

A miracle has occurred on the Kansas prairie.  I have, at long last, grown sweet corn in the Flint Hills.  Praise God and pass the butter an...

If there is one group of plants that I have no complaints about attempting in the Flint Hills, it's the melon and gourd families.  Our u...