The Vermont Gardener

Sunday, December 31st. 14 degrees out and the temperature is dropping rapidly now. This year quickly slips from the grasp of Father Time wit...

30.8 degrees here on the hill. It is quiet now. The kids down the road had friends over, and there was enough new snow to make new sleds sli...

27 degrees here on the mountain. I had to walk to the window to see if the stars were shinning and they are. I flicked on the light switch a...

A sliver of sunlight grows more and more slender as it pokes through the needle-barren tamaracks, casting a long reach across the forest flo...

Monday, December 11, 2006 32.5 degrees here on the hill. Same temperature for the past 3 hours. Gail has a nice roast chicken in the oven. I...

Tuesday eve, December 5, 2006 I just put a couple logs in the woodstove. The warmth feels very good, especially to Karl the wonder dog, flan...

Saturday afternooon and the wind doesn't seem to have let up a bit since daybreak. The temperature has dropped to 31 and it has been ho...

Tuesday afternoon and the outside appearance is no different now than it was at 7 this morning. The temperature lingers at 37 degrees as a...

An absolutely beautiful day here at the flowerless farm, though a tad chilly to start, with an "even" twenty degrees on the thermo...

Dark and quiet here at 5:30 AM. 32.7 degrees out and only the car and truck lights of hunters heading for the woods cuts through the darknes...

Already 4 PM here on the mountain. The weather has changed from sun and warm, to windy, to cloudy and black with minor sprinkles in between ...

Difficult to believe but here it is 9:30 in the evening and it's still 48 degrees out. At some point tonight the rain will start and by ...

A busy weekend here at Vermont Flower Farm. Not busy as in July with flowers in bloom and customers lined up with plants and questions, but ...

Already 7:30 here on the mountain, 42 degrees, with gray skies and a steady wind blowing brief spurts of colder air. Karl, the wonder dog, w...

Yesterday was another one of those fall days that made the gardener in me push onward against a still too long list of things to do before s...

21 degrees here on the hill this morning, clear as a bell and just plain quiet. Karl the wonder dog went out and suddenly froze like a statu...

4 PM but my watch says it's 5. I can always remember "spring ahead, fall behind", but changing all the clcoks and timers is so...

The pounding rain woke me at 4 this morning. The sound was an immediate reminder that the list of today's chores would have to be rework...