Flowering Onions
Onions are biennial plants, which means the first year they make bulbs (which you typically eat). If you don’t harvest onions the first year, they will come back the second year and... Read More
Strawberries
My nearly two-year-old nephew visited last weekend, and enjoyed eating these out of the garden. Puck also found them…. go figure! These are finally starting to produce after two years. It’s a... Read More
Greening a Chain Link Fence
Three months after moving in, we had most of the yard fenced in for the dogs. It’s a big yard, so we picked the cheapest option with the intention of turning it... Read More
Chives & Catnip
Why do the herbs always need to be picked when there is no other food in the garden to season with them? I have more chives and catnip than we will ever... Read More
May Flowers
A lawn care company left a flyer in our door yesterday. We are part of the 57% of families in our neighborhood who don’t use herbicides on their lawns. I prefer watching... Read More
Mantis Ootheca
When temperatures are in the 60s for long enough, hundreds of tiny mantis will emerge from this egg case. They will seek out aphids and other tiny insects – and eat eachother... Read More
Crabapples and Plums
The garden is seeded and planted; rain is in the forecast. Now we just sit back and watch it grow!
Tomorrow… Tomatoes.
Today… here’s Puck: Checking things out. He stays in the paths (mostly). “Broccoli…. cauliflower… kohlrabi! My FAVORITE!!” Enjoying his garden We’re finally seeing spring days in the 60s and 70s, with beautiful... Read More
Excel Spreadsheets = Garden Nerd2
I spend my days being a semi-nerd by profession. In my spare time, I garden. And just to tie the two together, I make spreadsheets. Here is what my garden looks like... Read More