
Dispatches from the garden and the edge of reason
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I didn’t get chickens because I wanted a simpler life. A simpler life does not involve chipping frozen shit from the coop ramp in February, or standing in the yard at dusk trying to persuade a bird to enter the structure where she has slept...
James was alive before Daisy died. He was there in the house with us, a soft, happy baby with round cheeks and opinions about puréed food. Daisy held his head in both hands. In photographs, she looks down at him with the grave concentration...
By late July, gardening becomes less about growing things than discovering what happened while you were asleep.
I go out most mornings before it gets hot, while the air still smells like it did overnight and the grass is still cool enough...
It happens every July, like clockwork, like a rash. Every trip outside becomes a disappearance. I step out to move the hose and resurface forty minutes later behind the tomatoes, damp, holding secateurs I don’t remember picking up. I am scr...
Daisy never knew me as a gardener. She knew me as someone who occasionally bought flowers and then forgot to put them in water. Someone who could identify a rose, a tulip, and probably a hydrangea if the hydrangea was behaving very obviousl...
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