September 2, 2014

late summer garden cleanup

What a beautiful Labor Day weekend! Here’s my new garden. I put a ladder out in the yard and did what I could to get a good perspective. Its hard to do as good as that second floor window over my garden that I used to have. But this new garden is awesome. Its teaching me all sorts of things about growing vegetables and getting a new garden up and going. This weekend I pulled dead pea vines, spring broccoli plants, early bean plantings and about half of my cucumber…

August 27, 2014

my backyard garden

August 14, 2014

garden in the rain

I went out in the rain today to check my garden. I got totally soaked because I couldn’t just check the garden fast as I had planned. Once there I had to weed and take pictures. I only had my cell phone, so they aren’t the best photos. Skippy and Suzie came too and played while I wandered in the garden. We all got soaked. The photos remind me of things I need to do in the garden. – The old pea vines need to come out. I’m waiting to…

June 12, 2014

vegetable garden by the pond

May 1, 2014

first bed is full

Today I filled my first bed in the new garden (actually the second from the edge, but the first one filled). I had half filled it last week and planted peas, and today completed bringing in topsoil and compost from a local farm. I planted broccoli (9 plants – a mix of early and late varieties), Asian greens, endive (escarole frissee and a broad leaved escarole) and 2 varieties of butterhead lettuce (Skyphos and Prizehead). It was a chilly day (45*F for a high) and rain is predicted all night…

March 26, 2014

time lapse video: making Skippy’s new garden

I am making a time lapse video of my new vegetable garden. So far, the video only shows us bringing the boards for the raised beds down to the garden area. The boards are 2×8 untreated pine. We also set out a few boards where the edges of the beds will be, just to see how they look. Time Lapse Video: Making Skippy’s New Garden I’ll extend the video as we create the garden and as the plants grow this year. Tomorrow we plan to make the raised bed frames.

March 11, 2014

garden-to-be

My husband and I shuffled through the snow to mark out the edges of my garden-to-be. I’m getting prices for putting in nice fencing around the plot. I’d like 4 foot post and rail. I’ll put some kind of wire netting behind it, like chicken wire, to keep the rabbits out. I’ll dig it down 6 inches to keep the woodchucks out. Then probably an electric wire at the top (or a 6 foot extension of plastic fencing) to keep the deer out. Alternatively, we’ve been thinking we may just…

January 18, 2014

snow on my future garden

That clearing in the center is where my new garden will be. I can imagine a rows of vegetables, a large bed of tomato plants, lots of potatoes, roses climbing on an arch, all sorts of greens ….

December 15, 2013

waiting for snow

This is our new back yard. My garden space to be is the open area in the center. My new tractor/lawn mower is the under the green tarp with the orange cart behind. We have a big pond that we look out on. Its 13 acres and frozen over now after a couple weeks of unusually cold December weather. Our old metal row boat is overturned on the shore, waiting (a long wait) for spring. The first flakes are falling now at dusk (the early 4 pm dusk) as our…

July 1, 2006

sprinklers on my June vegetable garden

The weather is dry enough to run my sprinklers today.

weeks and counting until my last spring frost

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