This weekend it was time to check our potted potato experiment to see if we’d actually been able to grow anything. The plants got fairly tall as potatoes tend to do, and over the last few weeks had started dying back, though two of them still had some green leaves. We dragged the two pots [...]
Weekend Gardening: Hibernation
February 12, 2011 By 1 Comment
I walk around the garden with snow crunching under my feet and my breath hanging in the air. Brown leaves hang on the rose bushes with a few shriveled flowers dangling from the stems. Lemongrass leaves, which last summer stood as tall as my eyes, now lay fallen and crushed, the lemon fragrance long gone [...]
Weekend Gardening: Growing Potatoes in the Winter, Part 2
January 2, 2011 By 2 Comments
Happy New Year! We started off the new year by talking about the garden, which we usually do in early January. This year the discussion centered around where to put in more raised beds this spring, where the fig and pomegranate trees should have their permanent home, and what to do about the potatoes we [...]
Weekend Gardening: Growing Potatoes in the Winter, Part 1
December 12, 2010 By 1 Comment
Ever since I found tiny yellow potatoes at Trader Joe’s last year, I’ve been planning how to grow some for ourselves. The flavor of those little potatoes is incredibly close to my favorite papas criollas from Colombia and after tasting them in ajiaco and clam chowder we knew we had to try them in the [...]
Weekend Gardening: Catching Up on Autumn Planting
November 14, 2010 By 2 Comments
Sometimes we are really on top of the garden to do list. Everything gets planted on time, weeded regularly, and harvested on time. This autumn was not one of those periods. So this weekend we are finally planting the garlic a month late, hopefully not too late. Like other bulbs, garlic needs to winter in [...]
Weekend Gardening: Final Harvest of the Summer Season
October 25, 2010 By 5 Comments
Weekend Gardening: Planting Grapes
October 17, 2010 By 3 Comments
Weekend Gardening: The End of the Basil and Tomato Season
October 3, 2010 By 5 Comments
Weekend Gardening: New Trees and Bushes
September 12, 2010 By 1 Comment
In the early days of Spring and Autumn, we have fun visiting nurseries and garden centers, admiring all the newly arrived plants and pondering what should go next in our edible back yard. Yesterday we selected a few new fruit trees and bushes to plant, though we had a hard time narrowing down the choices. [...]
Weekend Gardening: Weed Wars
September 4, 2010 By 5 Comments
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