A Tale of Two Tomatoes
by Elizabeth Spence featuring Carol Walton and Silvana Castillo Many years ago, I binge-grew some heritage tomatoes from seed. I had so many that I advertised the excess for sale. They included “Tribe’s Tobique,” a tomato discovered in the wild along the banks of the Tobique River in New Brunswick by a man called Fred […]
A-Mulching We will Go
Imitating Nature – But Should We Really Be Doing It? By Elizabeth Spence First of all, thank you very much indeed to our readers who responded to our questions about what they use as mulch and what they think about the topic in general. Your comments and information, plus our own experience and independent research […]
Sydney Blum: Sculptor
By Elizabeth Spence Sydney Blum doesn’t sculpt “things.” She is not trying to represent something she “sees” in life. Her aim is to sculpt ideas, feelings, moods, vibrations. Her art is not an end result, it is the means to an end. She doesn’t even use titles, because that will tell the viewers where to […]
My Lilac Flowers Have Finished Blooming. What do I do?
Patricia asks what to do now that her lilac flowers are finished. Elizabeth’s Reply: The answer is DEADHEAD, which, as the word suggests, means cutting off the dead flowers. But only if you want to. There is a story that deadheading lilacs will produce more flowers the following year. In my experience lilacs seem alternate […]