Goerwitz

Although nonnative, Korean bush cherries are hardy in USDA zone 4 (where I live), and not particularly invasive. The cherries are small, sour, and really tasty. Just after the point when they become ripe enough to be really good to eat, birds swoop in and strip them clean. I mean, in a single day you go from thousands of

In this photo my daughter and I are punching holes through a layer of dirt and newspaper that we've lain down over another layer of compost. The newspaper keeps the weeds down and degrades over the course of a month or two. The compost enriches the soil. The box in front of my daughter contains potato spuds that we drop down the holes we're making.

Purple coneflower (a type of echinacea) grows in several clumps in our back yard.