Comments on: Garden Cosmology

By: Leslie Beck

Leslie Beck — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:12:31 +0000

I’m so glad to have found this website, so intersting. Please keep in touch. Love it all, history, tips, etc.

By: jeffrey widen

jeffrey widen — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:45:46 +0000

My wife and I travel from Detroit to Manitoulin Island each summer for a camping trip. We go to the first so named commercial dark sky sanctuary in W.Ontario (Gordon’s Park) so we can see the Milky Way only 300 miles from home! While we were there this year..we visited the most stunning zone 4 garden..Pepper Point Garden…lovingly created on two acres over 30 years by Jean Narozanski (former Ringette coach)..so were able to enjoy so many of the aspects of our earthly existence that you so adeptly described in your blog post. We particularly enjoyed the fact that you related some (probably NPR or CBC) radio commentary into your blog. Thank you for preparing such a well crafted piece of writing for us to enjoy on a rainy summer night in Detroit!

By: ET

ET — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:10:29 +0000

Thank you for describing so well the big picture in a way that a gardener can understand.

By: Joey Daytona

Joey Daytona — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:11:39 +0000

Great post. I got to see Fordhook Farm for the Open Day over the weekend, great weather, great people, great gardens and another high-water mark for Burpee & Co.

By: John

John — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:23:29 +0000

Mr. Ball, my wife, the gardener of my life forwards your commentary to me, as she knows I appreciate the art in all things. I can relate to your existentialist views and am grateful for those with the ability to frame such thoughts with eloquence. I look forward to my next installment, like the seeds planted in my wife’s gardens.

By: Dot Lenhart

Dot Lenhart — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:27:35 +0000

George,
Sounds like you’ve been reading the Dalai Lama! I couldn’t agree more with your commentary. And you’re not alone in drifting to cosmic thoughts in the garden-it is also my favorite place to philosophize. Sometimes I see the solutions to my own and even the world’s problems in my little garden.

By: Janet Brink

Janet Brink — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:59:38 +0000

Gloriously wonderful essay. I love your essays but this one was really moving. Thank you so much. And I’m going out to taste my cherry tomatoes.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:44:57 +0000

Have you ever read Horton Hears A Who by Dr. Seuss? I’m sorry, but that’s what came up for me.

Today, I was wondering what I have to do to prepare my soils for the Fall garlic crop. I want bigger bulbs of garlic at harvest next year. One man said I needed to lime my soils. His garlic is twice the size of mine. At least, from each clove I planted last Fall, I got bulbs of a number of cloves. That’s cool!

By: Julia Horman

Julia Horman — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:23:24 +0000

Wonderful; first of your blogs that I’ve taken the time to read. Great blending of two of my favorite subjects: cosmology and gardens.
Obviously, I’ve been missing something here – looking forward to reading more. Thanks.

By: Sandy Rosner

Sandy Rosner — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:00:27 +0000

I like my newly planted fruit trees and grape vines and other stuff in the orchard I’m starting. And the one strawberry plant that lived when I initially doused the rectangular plot with round-up and set in the twenty-four plants too soon, named Jewel. And i think you are right in away. The bosom of Abraham is a safe place to be in the folds. Yet, I’ll be with Jesus beside him.