The Kittalog

Before Christmas I saw a gift guide that suggested these "grow your own tree" kits. I knew this would be the perfect gift for t...

Springtime in the Rockies is becoming predictable. Nice weekend followed by midweek snow. This time I got a little smarter and harvested som...

Here's what was blooming (or almost blooming, in the peach tree's case) in my yard two weeks ago. That was right before a week of...

It's Stock Show time again, which means we've survived the holidays and can think about eating again. The Stock Show is mostly about...

Faced with a mountain of yard waste and an average-sized compost bin, the Sergeant and I looked into renting a chipper-shredder. It's a ...

The Sergeant introduced me to scarlet runner beans, which he used to grow to screen his back deck in California. We planted a few here and t...

We got ourselves some pumpkins! And a whole lot of buttercup squash. Pumpkins can endure a couple light frosts, but six inches of snow and t...

We spent the morning rushing around getting the last of the harvest in, putting away garden tools and winterizing the swamp cooler. I gather...

The freeze finally came and killed off all the squash and tomato vines. The fence squash hung in there until the end, marveled over by passe...

As I noted before , the neighborhood cats have figured out where the little rat bastards are congregating. I was out in the yard yesterday ...

Saturday stayed cold and rainy most of the day, and early reports called for a freeze at night. I decided to bite the bullet and harvest the...

There aren't a lot of loose cats around the neighborhood, but we do see a few. They come into the yard for the big pot of catnip the Ser...

The fence pumpkin is about as big as it's going to get and is coloring up nicely. We're glad it's somewhat shielded from view fr...

This is how bad they are. I saw a mouse scampering under the squash vines. I went inside to get my camera. I stood next to the tomato vines,...

In October of 2009, someone on my gardening listserv was giving away a silver lace vine (polygonum aubertii), that was too vigorous for her ...

My tomato harvest this year is not going to be as great as in years past, in part because I let the vines get too crowded and didn't pru...

Well, the squarsh has gotten a little out of hand. We planted too many for the space, so the vines are crawling and climbing everywhere . I ...