We've begun planning for our new garden! Tim and I have been reading up on high-elevation gardening, to be aware of where to put the garden, how to lay it out, and what to be prepared for. We want to have a pretty good idea of the big picture soon, a ...
As January rolls on and we've been receiving seed catalogs and emails from favorite seed companies, I'm itchin' to start a garden here at our new location near Guffey, CO. Our house is well along the way, and we hope to be able to move in by the end ...
I've been getting catalogs and emails from several of the seed companies I've ordered from in the past, and it's sure tempting to take a look! Normally this time of year I'd be spending hours planning my garden and deciding which seed varieties I'd l ...
I have noticed over the years (this was our 5th year of gardening!) that my attitude about the garden is more relaxed. If something doesn't make it, I'm a bit sad, but shrug my shoulders and think, "Oh, well...". Tim and I have an acronym we say, ...
See the trench going under the plant!I've been noticing underground trenches in my pepper bed, starting at one end and on through to the other end. The holes are about 1 1/2-2" in diameter, and go under the pepper plants, up again, down and up ...
Obviously I have not taken the time to write about the 2013 garden. Because a few people do read this blog (thank you), I will put in some updates in case they are helpful to anyone. We learn new things each year as we try various new met ...
After viewing the Back To Eden film, we decided to use this approach on all our garden beds. We've found a few places to attain free wood mulch, and covered all of our beds with 3-4 inches of wood mulch. Our results were both good, bad an ...
TOMATOES are always my most prized garden treat. This year I tried some new varieties and some old ones, and had mixed results. I'll outline my thoughts on each. I ended up with nine different varieties.One experiment: I've al ...
I enjoy squash, particularly a good, winter squash. In fact, maybe I'll cook some tonight for supper! But, in the past years I've had mixed results in the squash beds, and quite a challenge controlling SQUASH BUGS and CUCUMBER BEETLES.Lak ...
Last year, the 2012 garden, I had followed some advice that it would be good to store the potatoes in the ground, under mulch, and that they would be fine until spring. So, in the fall I threw extra mulch (mostly hay and manure) over them and l ...