Winter Reshaping / by Michael Johns

Casey and I have decided that in addition to a selection of southern hemisphere plants, the Long Run needed a kitchen garden. So we’ve spent the past several weekends constructing terraced “wifi” beds at the lowest end of the garden from rot resistant and chemical-free western yellow cedar. Still some work needed to lay gravel paths and fill the beds with soil and compost, but we’re getting there. The beds face west, which is not ideal, but at least this part of the garden receives the earliest direct sun over the houses in mid January. Globe artichokes have been sowed indoors already, many more seeds to be sowed soon. Something to look forward to during these dark times (both literally and figuratively).