
Dispatches from the garden and the edge of reason
| Platform | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly | |
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| Issues | 52 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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By June, there is dirt permanently embedded beneath my fingernails. I scrub my hands after gardening. I wash them before bed. I own four nail brushes, one of which I can locate with certainty. And still, by this point in the season, traces...
For a long time I thought gardening reassured me because it made me feel useful against uncertainty. Tie the tomato. Cover the seedling. Build the fence. Anticipate the frost.
But after Daisy died, I lost the ability to fully believe in se...
I plant too many seeds because I cannot tolerate the possibility of emptiness.
This is irrational. I know how seed packets work. I understand germination rates. I have access to both experience and basic mathematics. And still, I lean over...
I have expensive gardening tools and almost no practical skills.
Well, that’s not entirely true. I have some practical skills—enough to keep things alive, and enough to make the garden look intentional from several flattering angles. But t...
There’s a morning in early May when I go outside to check on something and don’t come back in.
I’m not dressed for it, and I’ve brought my coffee out in a real mug, which suggests I believe in my own return. I tell myself I’ll just take a...
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