mulched paths in Mom’s garden

June 6, 2020

I am tired of weeds!!! I put down a water-permeable black weed cloth on the paths of my mother’s garden and covered it with chopped hay-straw mulch. It’s working well. I visited her today and it only took me a couple minutes to weed the rows. I think it looks…

the first plants in Mom’s garden

April 28, 2020

---, Mom and Dad's Garden

I planted a bunch of plants in my mother’s garden last Saturday. Lettuce, peas, spinach, arugula, parsley and beets. Then we dragged her very long hose out and watered things in. It’s still pretty cool here, often dropping to low 30’s at night. I haven’t planted anything out in my…

turning Mom’s garden

April 8, 2020

Garden Work, Mom and Dad's Garden

On Monday I prepared my mother’s vegetable garden. Last year I set it up as six or eight raised square areas. This year, it’s five raised rows. I like to raise the soil where I’m going to plant so the paths are defined and soil in the beds doesn’t get…

my mom’s Florida garden

February 4, 2020

---, Mom and Dad's Garden

I visited my mother in Florida last week. She spends the winter in the sun and warmth (in the Naples area) and it only makes sense for me to share some of that with her. Years ago, we gave her a small Grow Box on wheels. She always fills this…

Mom’s garden during ANOTHER March nor’easter

March 13, 2018

Mom and Dad's Garden, Watching the Seasons

Arrgh! (Or as my sister wrote, AYFKM!!?) We’re in the middle of our third nor’easter in 10 days. The first was 2 inches of heavy rain with very high winds and lot’s of coastal flooding. The second was about 8 inches of very heavy wet snow that brought down lots…

Mom’s garden

April 19, 2016

Mom and Dad's Garden, Photos of my Gardens

My mom’s garden looks pretty good. I planted winter rye that did very well over the winter. I am gradually working on turning it under. I planted Super Sugar Snap peas at the far end of this photo and have branches in for support. Mom’s garlic looks really good. It’s…

planting mom and dad’s garden

May 16, 2014

Garden Work, Mom and Dad's Garden

I brought my parents 5 or 6 trays of seedlings I raised. We planted them in their old garden and in a newly dug up addition. In their old garden, we planted basil (Nufar), peppers (sweet, Bell, Joe Parker NuMex, Amelia Cayene and Thai hot), eggplants, tomatoes (early planted Siberian…

spring planting in Mom and Dad’s garden

April 16, 2013

Garden Work, Mom and Dad's Garden

Today, my parents and I did the first work of the season on their vegetable garden. Here are before and after photos. BEFORE AFTER Only a couple hours work. We raked, then weeded and marked out paths. My Mom had her pad and pen and wrote down what we…

Mom and Dad’s giant sunflower

August 31, 2012

Mom and Dad's Garden

My Dad has a sunflower that has grown to be a giant! We measured it today at 118 inches tall – nearly 10 ft. He took a picture of me and Skippy next to it.

Mom and Dad’s garden

May 14, 2012

Mom and Dad's Garden, Photos of my Gardens

On Monday, my parents and I worked a full day in their vegetable garden. We planted tomato, pepper, lettuce, sunflower, basil, cilantro, squashes, marigold, cosmos, daisy and cucumber seedlings. Dad staked his recently planted snow peas. Some type of bug was eating the broccoli, cauliflower and bok choy that we…

mulched paths in Mom’s garden

the first plants in Mom’s garden

turning Mom’s garden

my mom’s Florida garden

Mom’s garden during ANOTHER March nor’easter

Mom’s garden

planting mom and dad’s garden

spring planting in Mom and Dad’s garden

Mom and Dad’s giant sunflower

Mom and Dad’s garden

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