Wardee featured our home garden at her wonderful Dawn Home Farm Tour, we felt very honored! Check it out and make sure to look around at her wonderful website. Wardee is also the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Fermenting Foods. We shared about our rented house with a small backyard of ...
Our Garden '12
Garden update – September 25, 2012
Did you notice there was no garden update in August? Well, at that time it felt like the garden was pretty much done. We have a nice spot for our garden and greenhouse in summer, but as soon as the sun was at a lower angle we had lots of mid-day shade because of a huge tree in neighbor's yard. With ...
Gardening at a friend’s farm
When I write about gardening here it is usually about our little garden in town. But this is not the only garden we garden in; we also grow lots of food at a friend's farm. This farm garden gets half of our attention but produces more then double the harvest. In fact, everything grows just so much ...
Garden update – July 31, 2012
It was a stormy day here, second in a row. Wind, heavy rain, hail, and tornado warnings. I took some pictures for the end of July garden update already on Sunday, and then a few today, after the storm. We have been enjoying many homegrown goodies: salad, swiss chard, kale, broccoli, peas, ...
Garden update – June 30, 2012
June seems to me to be the most challenging month for gardening. The excitement of planting and seeing things sprout and grow is over, but it is not yet time to harvest (at least for most things). ...
Garden update – May 28, 2012
Ornamental strawberries are blooming. These are outside. Beautiful old-fashioned bleeding-heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis). Iris, I love this color, and it is the first one that is blooming. Petunia is very much getting ready to bloom. Zucchini happily growing in a ...