Okra, Brussels Sprouts, Sweet Potatoes, Garlic, Cabbage, Strawberries, Beets, Carrots, Peas, Potatoes, Squash, Watermelons, Zucchini. I need to plant cucumbers where those peas are, but I’m giving them ONE MORE week before they are evicted.
Posts Tagged ‘zucchini’
26 Aug
Sweet Relish – Canning a condiment
Above is a modification of a recipe I found online, originally for zucchini sweet relish. I made lots of changes and notes when I wrote down the recipe on the card, but I always kept all the ratios of acidic elements and non-acidic elements essentially the same, so I still trust this as an “approved” [...]
8 May
Planting hills in the garden
In the kids’ square foot gardens, they are going to have quite a few vining crops. In just the bed for H., there will be Watermelon, Zucchini, Jackolantern and Gourds. Of course I realize that these vines won’t stay in their 4-square-foot space for the next 3 or 4 months, but I will try to [...]
3 Feb
Kid’s Garden Planner
I am adding two new 4 ft x 8 ft garden beds this year, so I decided to let my kids each plant one. I’ll also let our wonderful friend and neighbor, M., plant one of my existing 4×8′s. These children are 8, 6 and 6 years old, so I made them up a planning [...]
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 [...]
26 Nov
2009 Tentative Garden Layout
8 ft x 6 ft beds. The lettuce at the top will be planted on/in 20 inch high bales of straw, thanks to a few awesome bloggers who taught me this trick in their posts. I’m going to do a broccoli experiment this spring. I’ll plant two whole beds of broccoli, one with a closer [...]
16 Jun
Garden changing weekend ramble
The lettuces are done. They never made a head…it just got too warm for them and now they are bitter and milky inside. I pulled all of them out. We did eat 5 or 6 salads from the garden. The last bed of radishes did not form bulbs…headless! All carrots are coming along slowly, very [...]
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