This year the biggest surprise in our garden was the volunteers, which is much better than the bunny surprise we got last year. Apparently some of our compost didn’t cook long enough because we have volunteers aplenty.
Weekend Gardening: What’s Surviving the Heat
July 25, 2010 By 1 Comment
Weekend Gardening: Protecting Fruit Trees
July 11, 2010 By 3 Comments
Weekend Gardening: The Mixed Bed
June 26, 2010 By 2 Comments
Weekend Gardening: Tomato Updates
June 13, 2010 By 6 Comments
We planted our tomatoes three weeks ago and so far they are doing very well. The plants all took readily after transplanting and they’ve grown like crazy; in fact half of them are already at the top of their cages. We set 19 tomato plants and 4 tomatillo plants, then had to add more tomatillos [...]
Weekend Gardening: Early Summer
June 6, 2010 By 5 Comments
Over the month of May we gradually planted all the edibles around the garden. The blueberries moved to their new location in a high spot in the yard that will allow for better drainage so the bushes don’t succumb to the spring floods, and they’ve taken well to their new home. We have early, mid, [...]
Weekend Gardening: Planning for Spring Flowers
March 27, 2010 By 4 Comments
Weekend Gardening: A Cheap and Easy Way to Compost
January 23, 2010 By 7 Comments
If you peruse garden sites and catalogs, you’ll find an abundance of products to help you compost, and frankly the prices can be pretty ridiculous. In our opinion, $200 or more for a compost bin plus another $40 for a pretty crock to store your kitchen scraps until you have time to take them out [...]
Weekend Gardening: Transition from Summer to Winter
November 15, 2009 By 7 Comments
Summer to winter sounds like a big jump, and that’s how it felt around here for a couple weeks. We hit a cold snap in mid October that caught the garden and us by surprise. Daytime temperatures dropped into the 40s, and though we didn’t have a frost the tomato and pepper plants stopped production. [...]
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