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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘vegetable gardening’
2 Apr
As soon as the ground can be worked
Above is an 8 foot by 1 foot bed that got planted this weekend with Sugar Snap Peas. Our average last frost date here is April 14, but the seed packet tells me that I can plant these as soon as the ground can be worked in the spring. We shall see what happens! I [...]
21 Mar
Thompson Broccoli seedlings
Here are half of my broccoli seedlings. I am growing Thompson seeds this year. I must admit that I feel a bit nervous planting all one variety, but that’s what I did. We’ll see if I will learn this lesson the hard way. Monoculture? I’m so bad. The 72 plants I started will be planted [...]
4 Feb
Garden Layout 2010 – 3 new beds
As I mentioned in a previous post, I plan to add a little more space to the garden this year. The raised beds numbered 10, 11 and 12 will be new this year. Last year I added 7, 8 and 9. (But they were numbered differently.) The plan in the graphic rotates every crop to [...]
17 May
May 2009 Backyard Garden
Gardening by numbers Bed 1 is my wife’s herb garden with an 8 foot row of cucumbers along the fence. Just seeded this weekend. Bed 2 has strawberries, three kinds of peppers and a couple eggplants I got at the farmer’s market this weekend. Bed 3 is seeded with sweet corn on the left [...]
3 May
Saving Seeds from Radishes
Did you know that radishes will grow over 4 feet tall? I planted a pot of radish seeds in the greenhouse this December. The seeds took a month or perhaps even 6 weeks to germinate in the cold temperatures. While they were growing, I was actually able to eat 4 or 5 small ones, pulled [...]
8 Apr
Raised bed vegetable garden 2009
I worked in the garden this past Saturday. I added in two new veggie beds and increased the depth of four of the existing beds. Wood is expensive. The ones closest to the photographer here are covered in cardboard in the hope that a week without sunlight will make the sod removal easier this Saturday. [...]
24 Feb
Plant 16 per square foot.
“Plant 16 per square foot.” They make it sound so easy, don’t they? My cookie cooling rack started to go rusty on me. We’ve been using it since about 1997, so that’s not too bad. I knew right away what I was going to do with it (yeah, I might have been secretly happy that [...]
9 Dec
Wanted: Kale Seeds
Would anyone be willing to put a few of last year’s Kale seeds (any variety) in an envelope and mail them to me? I don’t have any (didn’t try it in the summer garden) and stores around here don’t stock seeds in December. I would really appreciate your time and effort.
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