The growing season is over - frost is here. However, there is still lots going on in the garden and greenhouse. We are not giving up just yet. Plants react very differently to frost (you can read more about it here), so even though there is frost we are still growing. The peas that I planted in ...
Our Garden '13
Our garden at friend’s farm
We have been growing a garden at friend's farm for many years, and we're very thankful for the opportunity. Over the years we kind of figured out how much we need of something, like one row of potatoes or one third of a row of carrots. But how many potatoes is a row? So, this year we started to make ...
Garden update – August 30, 2013
Summer is almost over and with it the garden season. Once again, we are thankful for all that has grown and ripened - delicious, homegrown garden goodies. Even though we already had our first frost warning, the frost thankfully did not come to our town. Right now the forecast looks really good, so ...
Garden update – July 25, 2013
You probably have heard the saying that foods that look like body parts are good for those body parts. Like walnuts and brain, or celery and bones. Not sure if it is true, but recently my hubby talked a lot about beans. He even asked me to make the very same bean soup that he had asked me kindly ...
Garden Update – June 26, 2013
In last year's June garden update I said that June seems to be the most challenging month for gardening: cold, wet, and lots of weeds. Well, I still think that last year's garden was doing better than this year's. We have had more rain than our land could bear. So many in our area have lost ...
Yeah, Tomatoes, Peppers and Eggplants are in the Ground – May 16, 2013
My little plants had grown a lot and were so ready to go into the ground. And at a nice rainy spring day like today it seemed like a perfect day to do it. On sunny days it gets very hot in the empty greenhouse --- too much stress for the transplants. The weather was perfect and the plants were ready ...
Planning and Planting the Garden – May 9, 2013
It is early spring here, even though it feels more like a summer day. I do not recall ever planting my first cold weather crop in such warm weather. After a long snowy winter God granted us a beautiful spring. Our grass is green and the trees are getting green too - so nice! However, I am not ...
Tomatoes and Eggplants are Planted – April 3, 2013
This morning we woke up to some beautiful snow, thankfully it did not last long and melted soon. We are just so ready for spring! One way to make spring happen, despite the weather, is to plant seeds. And that's what I did today. ...
First Seeds are Planted – March 13, 2013
Today is an exiting day - first seeds of 2013 are planted, marking the start for a new growing season! Come on, spring! Can you tell that I am a wee bit exited? I know, gardeners in the South are already planting their gardens while I am just starting my first seeds indoors, but our last frost day ...
