I have focused in on the 2-3 inch heads that are starting to form on my Primero purple cabbage plants. The outer set of leaves is probably 18 inches wide right now. Purple cabbage tastes the same as green cabbage and can be used interchangeably in recipes. However you have to be aware that it [...]
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19 May
Suspiciously missing this year
I can’t tell you why, but this year I have not seen any evidence of the moles that normally live in my back yard / garden. I also haven’t yet seen a flush of June Bugs. They normally show themselves in early May around here, so some refer to them as May Beetles. Also, in [...]
1 Apr
Moving tomatoes
My tomatoes have been getting blight (I believe it’s septoria leaf spot) earlier and earlier each year. I decided that I need to move them completely out of my main garden area this year. I built these four 2 foot by 2 foot raised “bed” boxes up by my back porch. They’ll get great sun [...]
31 Mar
View from the bottom of the garden
This is my urban back yard, as viewed from the back fence looking towards the house. See if you can spot: Two sparse beds of strawberries trying to re-establish themselves The curly water hose that I used to wet the fast compost pile My cold frame, which has seemed unnecessary this year as we stopped [...]
9 Mar
What lies beneath (the hay in my garlic bed)
I had a chance to work in the garden for a couple hours today. Wow, it was nice to be back out there again! At some point I decided to remove a majority of the hay that was covering my garlic bed. The hay won’t be needed unless oddly bitter cold returns without warning, but [...]
27 Feb
Spring Garden Planning – on Paper
When I originally built my first set of garden beds in 2008, I had a brilliant idea. Every web site and book I could find was telling me that I wanted my garden beds to be 4 feet wide, for the convenience of reaching the crops easily and the benefit of never having to set [...]
7 Jun
June 1st Garden Panorama
If you look closely enough you can see a few of the “stitching” mistakes. Oh well, you get the idea.
9 May
Yearly harvest weight vs reality
I am completely interested in numbers and stats. I would *LOVE* to keep track of how many pounds of this and that I grow in the garden each year. It would interest me completely to compare how many pounds of tomatoes I got in 2010 vs 2009 or 2008. The problem is that on a [...]
20 Mar
Talk about the weather
This week has been beautiful! No coats, ground getting drier every day. In fact I was all excited to get my new garden beds started. Last night I was finally able to get a few hours set aside to start. I started work in a sweatshirt but ended up really warm with just a t-shirt [...]
8 Mar
A Yearly Growing/Canning Plan For Our Family of Four
This post marks my first post by a guest contributor on WordPress. My marvelous wife Cinturon (who is GIDDY with happiness as she sees me write that) has decided to post here from time to time now that she knows I’m not crazy. Last year was just an experiment in her eyes, you see, but [...]
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