Growing Season
Tomatoes, Peppers, Eggplant… Corn and Bean seeds are all neatly tucked in. I even picked up some virginia peanuts at 101 Market on a whim…I’ll post more about those later. We’ve never... Read More
Weeds & Seeds
One of the questions I get asked a lot about organic gardening is how I control weeds. The short answer… I pull them out. I find it therapeutic sitting in the garden... Read More
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
It Finally Feels like Spring!
I finally started hardening off tomatoes and peppers this week. Last year I decided to start fewer plants inside, and purchase more at the local greenhouse… but I ended up buying seeds... Read More
Jimmy Nardello’s Heirloom Peppers
I am 90% certain that most of the peppers pictured above are Jimmy Nardello’s Sweet Italian Frying Pepper. If I’m wrong, someone please correct me! I decided not to label my peppers... Read More
Another new year
Seedlings planted March 5th: Tomato, Jahrdale blue pumpkin, and Brussels Sprouts It’s that time again! I’m excited about this year’s garden. We saved a lot of seeds from last year – various... Read More
10 quarts of salsa!
Remember the giant amount of tomatoes that I picked the other day? Well, about half of them started to ripen already! So the counter was filled with red, orange, and green tomatoes;... Read More
13 quarts of pickles
I drastically reduced the number of vegetables hanging out on the counter and in baskets in the basement by slicing them up and pickling them. I really, really hope that we like... Read More
Purira Peppers
Of all the things we grew this year, the chile peppers were definitely the best producing, and the most exciting. Especially the purira peppers – we will be saving seeds from these... Read More
Mid-August
Front Garden Cayenne Peppers As you can see… we’re going to have some ripe tomatoes very, very soon! There are three fat amana orange tomatoes in the front, and lots of misshapen... Read More
Summer Heat
Three flowering black eggplants in pots in the back yard. It was pretty hot (above 90) yesterday, and the temperatures are predicted to rise for the next two days. I’ve been watering... Read More