It's a new year and a new garden. I've just finished getting everything planted. We've added 8 large beds, which includes one along the fenceline for raspberries, blackberries, currants, and honeyberries. Other new items this year: tomatillos, gro ...
Along with all of our garden produce, we've been trying to "Eat Local" as much as possible. So far we've made the following changes:Milk: from a local organic dairy, delivered in glass returnable bottlesHoney: from beehives just about a mile away, a ...
The seedlings I've planted are coming along nicely, for the most part, and I'm busy making more plans and reading more tips to ensure better and more consistent harvest...fewer things at a time, planted in succession as much as possible.I'm a little ...
Well, I obviously was too busy to post at the end of the 2009 season. Now it's 2010 and we're getting ready for the next planting season. We will be expanding the garden to include the west side, the slope along the east side, and some fruit trees ...
Obviously, I have neglected this blog! I've been busy in the garden and with many other adventures, including a week of horse-camping in southern Wyoming.The garden is going great, and we are learning a lot. There are quite a few things we'll do di ...
It's been a long time since I've posted, and we've been busy! We have experienced a great deal of rain, which has been wonderful for the garden (except for a couple of hailstorms, see below). We are discovering a few things which we will do differe ...
After battling the fungus (see June 6), I removed the hay mulching I'd had around all the beds to keep the moisture in. It may or may not have caused the fungus, but whether the fungus came from the hay or not, it was keeping it moist and dark, with ...
We had more hail yesterday. I ran out and covered the pepper plants with chairs and stools from the porch, and they don't look any worse for the wear. They still have holes in their leaves from the last hailstorm. This time there's a few holes in ...
What is this??? This icky fungus is growing around the edges of some of the beds. The bottom, on the soil, is mushy, and the top of it is kind of leathery. It's starting on the edges of the beds that were done first, so I'm wondering if in time it w ...
Oh, no! It hailed today. It started out as quite a downpour of water, and I was a bit concerned that it might hail....later on my fears came true. The hail was pea-sized. The only real damage I've seen so far is some of the leaves on the peppers ...