The Dead of Winter
Sounds good to me: “I don’t have time to garden well. I garden anyway. Gardening is one of those activities like caring for children or learning about the past that rewards you... Read More
We have Broccoli!
I never thought I’d see it! We have about a dozen broccoli and cauliflowers forming. As you can see the leaves are getting eaten up. I’ve picked off a good number of... 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
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
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
Lower Your Expectations
There hasn’t been time to properly plan or prepare for our big garden. I am graduating from college this weekend and need to study more yet. The other day I found a... Read More
More Papaya Pictures
This post has nothing to do with our vegetable garden. But I am utterly obsessed with my papayas. I figure these are about 10 months old now, and after a good transplanting... Read More
Listening in at a local hardware store
(picture of dandelions here) So I had to pick up some fuses at one of the hardware stores in town because we blew through all ours again and I picked up a... Read More
straw potatos
Since it was Sunday we tried to take it easy, but I planted some potatos in straw next to the garden. Nigel ate a few when I wasn’t looking, but there are... Read More
Old Post I Never Published
This was from last summer. I never did complete what I was going to do here: i know all our readers have been clamoring for another one of my posts. in between... Read More