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- Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Gainesville, Georgia
Archive By Author - Kristen Morales
Manila envelope holds links to past
We were expecting out-of-town guests, so I thought I'd clean up a little-used area of the house and make room for the air mattress.
Parenting skills are exposed when we chat with an expert
"Now, Sofia, we're going to meet with Dr. Rosemond, and I need you to be a good girl."
Best of the aughts: Zeroing in on music
Sure, Elvis' crooning and hip shaking forever changed the trajectory of rock music in the 1950s. But a little college project that caught hold among music lovers in 1999 completely blew the lid off the entire genre.
Fresh things come to those who wait
Five months after putting them in the ground, I can finally say I have some tomatoes. Within that time, one wilted, one turned out to bear yellow cherry tomatoes and two others have turned into plants more resembling shrubbery than tomato plants. But I can also report that I've been able to supplement some of my farmers market purchases with a fresh tomato here and there from my garden. Overall, it was a season of ...
Forget pecans, these squirrels are after my tomatoes
Oh, sure, everything was going all fine and dandy the last time I checked in with this garden column, showing off my zucchinis and so very proud of my little cherry tomatoes that looked like small golden pears.
Squirrels attack, but there's still a few tomatoes in this garden
The squirrels are haunting me. They attacked my neighbor's strawberries. Their pilfering of my one heirloom tomato plant - although not confirmed, but I'm pointing the finger at them anyway - left a suspicious bite mark and forced me to wrap the plants in deer netting. Thwarted by the netting, they moved to the squash, where the first yellow crookneck came off the plant marred by - you guessed it - scratches and bites. Argh! ...
Asian flair dishes up more than plain-Jane beans
When my dad recommended I grow bush beans, I had no idea what a good idea that was. For the past couple of weeks, every other evening I've been going out to my garden and picking at least a half-pound of fresh green beans. For a plant I thought was washed away by this spring's heavy rains or had been eaten by snails, it's survived - and thrived. And sure, I'm dutifully blanching them as ...
Some garden pests are squishy
This is the most crucial time for a garden. At this point your cold-weather crops are starting to wane, and the hot-weather crops - your tomatoes, beans, squash, etc. - are still trying to grow. And it's this combination of waning, leafy plants and new, sweet buds that are very enticing to pests. So far, my tomato plants are happy. A couple of them are actually tall enough to require being tied up to their ...
New vocabulary word: Short sale
For those of you who haven't heard my sob story, I'll fill you in: I moved up here from South Florida, right after the third hurricane hit us and right before the housing bubble burst.
All I want is a healthy, red, ripe tomato
I swear, every year they mock me. They humbly sit among the vegetables at the garden center, quietly calling, "Pick ME. You know I'll grow up to be big and healthy." Or, they mock me from the sunny windowsill in my kitchen, where I have successfully started them from seeds for the past two years. "I'm happy and healthy," they whisper. "Go ahead and plan for lots of tomato sandwiches this summer." Oh cruel, cruel ...
Morales: This is the start of something big ... hopefully
Every spring, it becomes a mantra for me: This year will be the year. But this year, I really mean it. Seriously. You see, every year I plant a garden. I started with tomatoes way back when I was a recent college graduate, throwing seeds in the puny backyard of the house I was renting. (That didn't work out so well.) With each year comes more experience and more varieties. When I lived in Florida ...
Kids all aglow when the Pink Pig rolls in
ATLANTA - She was a little tricky to find, at first. Those little pink pigs usually are.
Kids take their friend on a ride to tell his story
For everyone out there who says pop culture only shows images of kids doing bad things, this is one case where you need to drop whatever you're doing and watch this movie.
The magic of mozzarella
It began as a challenge: Could I make dinner using only locally produced products?
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