the economy of growing your own food

In an effort to not be redundant and post this in a third spot, I am going to just invite you all over to read my recent post at The Hip Homemaker on how I have tried to be economical in creating my first year garden… See you over there! Onion

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the fruits of my labor

I am so excited to see the harvest coming in this week.  It really is a snowball effect.  It starts with one little turnip, a couple of cucumbers and then suddenly it is madly out of control. This week I pulled up all of my turnips and prepped them for a potato turnip gratin I [...]

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can I compost that?

As you start to get farther into your gardening adventure, you may want to start composting. Here is a very helpful composting list from the always wonderful Gayla over at You Grow Girl, one of the original and best indie-urban gardening sites on the web. I will be posting some new photos of the bounty [...]

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my garden this week

Things are growing and getting big in the sun. Despite some of the disappointments I outlined last week, I was giddy last night as I traipsed through the garden with my camera in hand. Here are a few of the exciting things I saw: You can also stop by The Hip Homemaker to see some [...]

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success and failure

As a first-timer with almost all of these veggies, I didn’t really know what to expect, and there have already been some hard lessons.  One thing that keeps coming at me from all directions, from gardeners who have been doing this for 40 years and from ones who have done it for 4 years, is [...]

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my garden this week

Here are a few shots of the little plants coming to life or growing big and strong in my garden this week… (broccoli, from the free, frost bitten starts I got at the nursery ) (cauliflower, which is also from the free starts and was only chosen because it was free) (I did not properly [...]

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my urban homestead

I am a new blogger here at 1000 new gardens, so I thought, rather then just diving in, I would start with an introduction.  I am a longtime Missoulian, first time veggie gardener.  Over the winter we moved out of our old house, which I think can boast the shadiest yard in Missoula (good for [...]

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