Tag Archives: Spring

Growing Popcorn and Wives Tales

Growing popcorn

As you may have noticed, I like wives tales, and how they relate to the garden. I figure, if people have been doing something successfully for a long time, then there must be something in it, even if we can’t scientifically explain why. This is especially true for agriculture, because so much of small-scale sustainable […]

Almond Tree: First to Blossom, Last to Harvest

almond blossom

In August last year I bought a whole host of interesting (and heirloom) fruit trees from Yalca Fruit Trees. Now, I was very excited about all of them. Matt will tell you how willing I was to bore everyone around me with odd varietal specifications. However, there was something special about the almond tree. The […]