Garden Diary

5-31-12 SHORT HILLS: Tuesday was in the nineties with high humidity, followed by T-storms at night, very Julyish. There was 0.25 inches of r...

5-28-12 VERMONT: Another good one. Memorial Day to me is a memory of storms, cold rain, overcast skies as a kid at the Jersey Shore. Later i...

5-27-12 VERMONT: Another beautiful day, perfect—except for black flies and mosquitoes. In the morning I used the string trimmer in the front...

5-26-12 VERMONT: I forgot to mention in the last post that we have three cows in the pasture. They belong to Josh, who does the lawn and is ...

5-24-12 VERMONT: We arrived yesterday and found large rafts of floating algae on the pond. We have had this problem before, but not for year...

5-22-12 SHORT HILLS: We ended up with 2.25 inches of rain and everything is sopping even if the sun is out now. We are off to VT tomorrow. ...

5-21-12 SHORT HILLS: No more Mr. Nice Weather—yesterday a front came up from the south while we were visiting Bob and Chris in Lavalette on ...