Every gardening season I go out to my garden beds and see two things happening. The mint is thriving and the morning glories are everywhere. The only problem is that I didn’t plant either one of these. The lady who lived here before me must have thought morning glories were charming and mint a delicacy. … Read More Do the World a Favor and Don’t Plant Garden “Thugs”
Already up: (some) peas, beets, arugula, spinach, buttercrunch lettuce, oakleaf lettuce, chives, garlic Waiting to see: royal red lettuce, swiss chard, alyssum (carpet of snow) Just planted: more peas, royal red lettuce, onions, radishes, carrots, Muscles’ giant cabbage (a school project that I really hope I don’t kill), the fruit trees at the church garden,… Read More The Spring Report
If you haven’t already done so, now is the time to direct sow cool weather things like onions, beets, peas, lettuces, and spinach. Above is a picture of the part of a row of Arugula coming up in my outside garden right now. If you wait much longer, then you won’t get a very… Read More Plant cool stuff now…
A couple of years ago I decided that I wanted most of my strawberries to be in containers though I have a few rogue plants in the main garden area where they used to live. I looked in lots of places and finally found just what I was looking for in the section of Home… Read More Strawberry Planters from Pond Equipment
Although we still have winter gear out around here, the crocuses are up and that is a good sign. Warrior Princess insisted on wearing her snow hat around the house all day. And the boys finally got to go skiing this past weekend! Love these brave little flowers.
The avocado plant has continued to grow. I seriously thought it was a goner. It now has a root thing coming out the bottom. I have no idea how the top of the plant is planning on getting out of the shell. The pics I have seen show it coming out of the top… Read More Update on the Experiments…
I have always wanted an orchard. A lovely place to sit under the flowering trees on a late spring day and read a great book. Guess what? I don’t have an orchard, but I have something close. A friend with lots of land!!! And guess what? She wants an orchard too!!! How exceptionally cool is… Read More Trees!!!
See this? This is a tomato seedling, planted on 2/9/12. It has been growing steadily and has developed it’s second set of true leaves already. I have added soil as it has grown. Obviously though it is still little and cute and needs quite a bit more time indoors, which is… Read More Plant tomatoes now, not SQUASH
**See update at bottom of post for a follow up on Spindly Seedlings! After the dampening off issue I have had in the past with seedlings, my second biggest problem has been weak and spindly seedlings. Do you see the picture above? These are some lettuce seedlings I planted as a sort of experiment. … Read More Spindly Seedlings
Two yummy amendments for the garden. D-lish! Break those egg shells up by baking them at whatever temperature for however long you want. I usually stick them in a bowl covered in aluminum foil (so I don’t have to clean baked egg off my dishes) and throw them in whenever I am preheating the oven… Read More Eggs and Coffee? Breakfast anyone?