The 2012 garden is planted--see maps below. Whew! Everything is in its place and I'm on to less urgent maintenance projects, like weeding and catching up on the blog. We've been working hard, and it's nice to have a break.NEW THINGS ...
I've mentioned previously this cool tool at growveg.com to create a garden plan. My current plan is now published and can be seen here: 2012 Garden Plan I've also placed a link in the sidebar at the right. This only shows the m ...
Greenhouse, It faces south.The greenhouse is done! We finally have it all completed and planted, and are excited to see how well things will grow. First, Tim put the hoops up, and side supports. We got some "woven poly" from Northern Gree ...
Tim has begun to work on our greenhouse, which we will use for growing a few things in late fall/early winter, and then in late winter/early spring. We'll also use it for hardening off seedlings before planting them outside. It faces the ...
I've been way too busy to write about what I'm doing. I've picked and preserved almost 300 lbs of tomatoes. I've canned diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, marinara, mexican sauce, salsa, bbq sauce, ketchup, tomato chutney, taco sauce, tomato b ...
Hornworms I found a hornworm looking thing wandering across the concrete, and thought, "Oh, no!" I looked around on the tomato plants and didn't see more worms or any obvious damage, so I was puzzled. I expected to find some tomato p ...
With all this emphasis on our new ducks, I haven't mentioned the garden, but it's growing great, for the most part. This week we've been enjoying PEAS. We have Snow Peas, Sugar Snap Peas, and Shelling Peas. I made a nice stirfry wit ...
Well, it's been a difficult planting season! After all my planning, it seemed like everything went kaput the last few weeks. The week I'd intended to plant (starting May 15, our "average last frost date") turned cold and rainy. I kn ...
All year I have planned on planting my seedlings outside this week. After all, even though the "average last frost date" is May 15th, the last two years have had great weather in May and I guess I was fortunate. NOT THIS YEAR. As mentioned in the ...
4:20 pm: It has just begun to rain and it's about 46 degrees. The forecast the next few days/nights is for rainy days in the mid-to-high 50's (not so bad), but 40-ish each night (not so good). The past few days have been off-and-on cold ...