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For many people, a weed is a weed and it’s unwanted and needs to die. Now that I have my own yard and gardens (and a much more expansive understanding of the ecosystem), I have a much more complicated relationship with weeds. ...

Back in the days before we had a kid and a bunch of blogs and had time on our hands, we spent a couple of years with a home garden big enough to sell produce at our local farmer's market...

We've been getting a lot of tomatoes in the last couple of weeks, but the real explosion has been in the cherry varieties - a couple dozen plants have offered up maybe 30-40 pounds of tomatoes so far...

Our raised bed is booming at both ends, and we're working on getting the middle filled in. At one end, we've got a spicy salad mix that includes mustard greens, frisee, and a few other things that we're not exactly sure what they are (if you recognize any of it, definitely let me know!)...

My family recently got the chance to review a Chariot trailer for our bikes - the kind of trailer that you can stick your kid in and ride down to the farmer's market, park, or just take a fun jaunt around town...

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. - The Great Gatsby When F...

Everyone we know succeeds with broccoli in Las Vegas. Except us. With over a dozen plants, we had one small head of broccoli filled with aphids. Not exactly appetizing. But all was not lost: Over the weekend, we pulled the plants and harvested the leaves...

June isn't actually summer here in Montana - it is late spring. With that in mind, I try not to get too frustrated when things are lagging well into June. Instead, I try to celebrate successes. Here are some recent accomplishments: I harvested, washed, and cut up the rhubarb...

I wish I had a stunning, perfectly imperfect garden. A lush, colorful sanctuary that provided aesthetic beauty as well as delicious edibles. Water, texture, food, a few weeds, it's all good in my mental image. Alas, I'm a long way off from my wish...

Around this time last year, we had just moved into this house with a two-year-old and a six-day-old baby and had very little time or energy to get ourselves a garden in the ground...

Absurd? Absurdly awesome. Make your own! [Via BoingBoing] - Jeremiah

As any parent can tell you, in many ways, having a baby allows you to look at the world all over again from the perspective of a child. Everything is fresh and new, and full of wonder...

With this post we welcome Tara from TheOrganicSister, who we're thrilled to announce as one of a handful of new contributors who will be chronicling their season of gardening here on Gardenaut...

One of the many varieties of peppers we've planted this year...