The Patch Post

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

Reading Your Pumpkin Leaves: What Yellowing, White Dust, and Chew Holes Mean

I walked the patch first thing this morning with an empty wheelbarrow and came back with it full of yellow leaves. If you have grown...

A neighbor stopped by the fence this week while I was thinning vines, watched me drop a handful of leafy tips into a basket, and...

There is a moment most mornings when the coffee is poured and the filter basket is still full of warm, dark grounds. For years I...

The first one started up a little after four in the afternoon, somewhere in the cottonwood at the edge of the patch. One long, dry,...

The dog walked me down to the fence line before six this morning, and that is where I found them. Wild black raspberries, the first...

The first one blinked on around nine, low over the squash leaves, while the coffee in my hands was still too hot to drink. Then...

The first one always catches me off guard. I went out at sunrise with my coffee, expecting nothing but blossoms, and there it was under...

The light comes early now. By half past five the patch is already awake, the dew still sitting heavy on the broad leaves, and my...

The bees were already working when I came out with my coffee this morning, before the dew had even decided to lift. There is a...

The coffee was still too hot to drink when I noticed the first squash blossom had opened overnight, a small gold trumpet pointed straight at...

You can see it from the gravel road before you hear it. A line of dust along the southern horizon, gold below and blue above,...

This week something happened that we are still grinning about. The Newton Kansan came out to the micro-farm, walked the beds with us, and put...

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