I was excited when I won the opportunity to have a Floating Island Raised Bed. When I picked it up, I became more intrigued than excited. Would this really work? And what in the heck kind of oddball material is it made out of ? I still don’t know the answer to the [...]
Archive for the ‘Garden Expressions’ Category
15 Sep
Update on garden!
So this is my second blog about my above ground garden. All is doing very well! I have gotten to enjoy an Italian white eggplant already, and my yellow bell pepper is coming right along! I was concerned about all the rain that we got a couple weeks ago because my garden is below the [...]
15 Sep
Speaking of Downsizing…
I know it’s totally the wrong time of year to move strawberries, but nevertheless, here I am. I am moving some of my garden beds around and have dug up a bunch of June-bearing plants (variety is ‘Honeyloe’). They need to get in the ground ASAP. Please shoot me an email if you can take [...]
15 Sep
Looking Ahead
I know that there is still probably enough time to get a quick lettuce or spinach crop in, but it feels like the end of the season to me. Most likely, it’s because I am trying to fit in the monumental task of shuffling my garden beds to accomodate a new, smaller version of my [...]
20 Aug
Of Pests and Parasites
I may just have to stop reading my gardening literature. Twice in the last few weeks, I have read about a garden problem and then stumbled across it in my own plot just days later.
It started with the fall issue of Zone 4 magazine, where I read an article about raspberries. The berry expert profiled in [...]
7 Aug
Filling a void (the sharecrop and fall planting)
Earlier this week a new friend, Marco, and I began a contemporary voyage into (the once abused term) ’sharecropping.’ At two households that have, for all practical purposes, been in fallow for years (visual of one), the lords of the land are letting us fill the void by weeding or tilling, llama manuring or composting, [...]
4 Aug
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!
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4 Aug
A Little Payoff and Some Meandering
Depsite one of the most persistent stomach bugs I’ve had the misfortune to encounter, I did manage to wander out to the garden for a few minutes this weekend to hunt for the zuchinis that I knew would be out there. Sure ’nuff, I nabbed 4 good-sized beauties plus a couple of summer squash. Last [...]
29 Jul
Seed Saving–first item of business, the peas.
If your once green peas are looking bloated and showing signs of late season garden rust, they probably look like mine. Peas are definitely early risers and early sleepers. Is anyone else’s peas in the mood for castration yet?
Harvesting a bucket of woody, decaying pea pods made me question whether stir-frying the last crop was [...]
26 Jul
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 will [...]
24 Jul
Watering Follow-up
I was asked to provide more details of my soaker-system setup, and better pics. The pics will be added to this post this weekend, but in case anyone was really waiting for this info, here it is:
I got my inspiration at the Mr. Drip website. Laugh if you will, but there are some good graphics [...]
18 Jul
Finally have my raised garden planted!
Hello! Due to not having internet at my apartment all week I am just finally getting around to blogging about the awesome raised garden that I won! So I went out and got some soil and had to displace all the daddy long leg spiders who had taken residence in the container. I planted a [...]
16 Jul
The Livin’ is Easy
I had a vision of gardening this year, and it didn’t involve dragging the hose around, or cursing at the oscillating sprinkler that would stick on one side or the other if the water pressure changed. I spent most of January researching drip setups, but only got my setup completed a couple of weeks ago [...]
13 Jul
Let’s swap stories (from the field and the kitchen)
Gardening for vegetables really seems like a spectrum of intemacy. And the farther along in the season, the less careful I am with the produce.
Thinking back to the beginning of the season when those first suckers (or seedlings if you’re not into the whole brevity thing) are ready to transplant, every motion is filled with [...]
9 Jul
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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