Garden Preparation: Part 1
One long weekend, sunshine, and several shovels full of dirt turned the giant mounds of compost pictured in my last post into this: We actually expanded the garden a bit this year,... Read More
Here we go again…
Welcome back to VEGarden! The sun is shining and though temperatures are still in the 40s, we have hit some 60ยบ F days – spring is just around the corner! And this... Read More
Will Update.
So, we moved. Across the state. I’m sorry that it has been so long since I’ve posted here! Pictured above is our new garden, on our new one-acre lot. We have already... Read More
The first fruits of …
Lack of labor? I haven’t been out to the garden much recently – I’m swamped with my other jobs. Chris has been spending a few days a week out there, but the... Read More
Three weeks and counting…
I went on vacation and the garden became a bit… neglected. It was actually hard to tell where the weeds ended and the vegetables started. Unfortunately, just about zero three sisters (corn,... Read More
A long weekend
If my counting is correct, we got in 280 tomato plants and 300 brassicas this weekend. We still have eggplants, peppers, and okra transplants to put in. The southeast corner of the... Read More
Slowly making progress
When we got out to the garden this morning, the guy who had plowed was out there with his tractor tilling for us. The ground is much more workable than it was... Read More
So, you want to grow vegetables?
These last four days have been frustrating, exciting, skeptical, frantic, depressing, energetic, and hopeful. I told Chris that when we were done with this year he would be prepared to write a... Read More
The next step
That’s about a third – maybe even less than a third – of our seedlings. They have become family, and I hope they all make it into the ground. (Except for the... Read More
A curious okra problem?
This is a bit odd. All of our okra seedlings are covered – very thickly – in these little clear gelly spheres. They seem like eggs, but the strange thing is that... Read More