turning Mom’s garden

April 8, 2020

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…

today’s garden work

October 31, 2018

Garden Work

It was a beautiful, bright and warm HALLOWEEN day! I was lucky to do garden work all day. There are not so many of these good outdoor days any more as the season moves on toward winter. Here’s what I did: – Finished up my seed list. (Last year I…

favorite week – planting corn and beans and transplanting tomatoes

May 14, 2018

Garden Work, Starting Seeds

This is one of my favorite weeks in the vegetable garden. Highlights are transplanting tomato seedlings outside and sowing bean and corn seeds. I transplant my hardened off tomato seedlings to the garden when night time low temperatures are routinely above 45F and mostly above 50F. I transplanted my mom’s…

a gardener’s lament

March 14, 2018

Garden Work

My muscles are sore. My hands from holding the snow shovel. My shoulders and arms from lifting the sticky snow and throwing it off to the side. In better weather, I park my car out by my mom’s garden to unload seedlings and compost. This time, I parked my car…

today’s indoor garden work

January 22, 2018

Garden Work, Starting Seeds

Today I planted seeds for 3 types of lettuce and a cabbage. Just a few of each. Seedlings will go into my winter tunnel in 4 weeks. By then we’ll be getting on to the end of February. If temperatures aren’t warm by then, at least there’ll be enough light…

winter tunnel clean up

January 11, 2018

Garden Structures, Garden Work

I opened up my winter greens tunnel this afternoon, but it wasn’t a pretty sight. All the romaine lettuce was wilted and rotting. I guess the week of sub-zero temperatures was too cold for it. Plus it looks like a mouse had gotten in. There was a mouse nest and…

winter “gardening”

January 7, 2018

Garden Work

Well we got just over a foot of snow last Thursday, bitter cold temperature, and then I got a winter cold (achoo). Tis the season. Over half of my winter tunnel is crushed from the snow load since I never got that top support put in. Other than these sad…

today’s garden work

November 8, 2017

Garden Work

We are expecting a good freeze tonight – our first – so I spent some time getting ready. – Picked the rest of the pole beans, 3 lbs (!), and took down the vines and poles (and later made 5 jars of dilly bean pickles) – Harvested the last of…

growing Belgian endive

October 24, 2017

Garden Work

I’m trying something new this year. Belgian endive! I grew it from seed starting mid summer. Last Friday I harvested the roots and now they are curing in the garden under leaves. They’ll stay out there a few days or so, then the leaves get chopped off and the roots…

garden work: weeds, weeds, weeds

July 23, 2017

Garden Work

Today I spent a couple hours working in my community garden plot. Where do all these weeds come from? I think I pull them and then I turn around and they have grown up again. Weeding takes most of my garden time now, but I do other fun stuff too.…

turning Mom’s garden

today’s garden work

favorite week – planting corn and beans and transplanting tomatoes

a gardener’s lament

today’s indoor garden work

winter tunnel clean up

winter “gardening”

today’s garden work

growing Belgian endive

garden work: weeds, weeds, weeds

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