The Patch Post

Prairie stories, growing tips, and reflections from our Kansas garden. Follow the seasons with Autumn Prairie Pumpkins.

A Walk Through the Cucurbita Moschata Varieties in Our Patch

The dew was still on everything when I went out this morning, and the coffee was still too hot to drink, so I walked the...

Three in the afternoon, first week of September, and the thermometer on the shed says 96. I walked out to the patch with the last...

There is a particular small heartbreak that happens at the base of a pumpkin vine in late August. You spot a female flower, the one...

The sprinkler had been running for a while before I noticed. Not long, maybe twenty minutes past when I meant to shut it off, but...

A woman at the Newton farmers market set down her bag of tomatoes last Saturday and asked me, almost apologetically, whether it was true what...

The first spring I put a shovel into this ground, it came back up with a slab attached. Not soil exactly. More like a wet...

The first summer I grew pumpkins, I walked out to the patch with my coffee just after sunrise and found every blossom flung wide open,...

My neighbor leaned on the fence this week while I was picking squash bugs off the Seminole vines, coffee cooling in my other hand, and...

The wheelbarrow did not make it to the porch this morning. I loaded it out in the patch, got about forty feet, and had to...

The first almost-cool morning showed up this week. It never lasts in early August, by ten the heat is back and leaning on everything, but...

The Kikuza had eleven leaves on Tuesday evening. I counted them, because it was the last thing I did before the light went and I...

There is a Musquee de Provence sitting about twenty feet from the back step that has been quietly changing color for two weeks, and I...

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