the first plants in Mom’s garden

April 28, 2020

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…

here is a template garden plan

April 27, 2020

Garden Planning

I use PowerPoint to draw up my garden plans. If you have PowerPoint and want to start from a template that I have made, you can download it here: Skippy’s garden plan template. There must be some good, simple garden design apps to recommend and link to here. Please let…

my garden plans for 2020

April 23, 2020

Garden Planning

I usually draw up plans for my gardens in the middle of the winter but this task got away from me this year. Finally, just in time for planting, I have made my plans.

a new package of honeybees

April 23, 2020

Honey Bees

A week and a half ago, Monday, I installed a package of bees in my backyard. I didn’t have honeybees last year, but I missed them buzzing around my vegetable garden. Every year I install the bees wrong, no different this year. The queen comes in a little cage…

out with the cabbages, in with the tomatoes

April 22, 2020

Food Pantry Garden, Hoop House, Starting Seeds

My little unheated hoop house is working out very well this year. On Sunday I brought all my tomato, pepper and basil plants down to the hoop house. Since it was full to the brim with onions, brassicas and greens, I moved all of these out to the garden. They…

mice in my hoop house

April 14, 2020

---, Hoop House, Pests & Pathogens

I knew I had a mouse in my hoop house. It was leaving half eaten acorns in some of my plants. Then it started nibbling on the pea seeds in a couple big trays full of pea seedlings. I took the peas up to the house to grow and put…

incubating chicken eggs

April 14, 2020

---, My Chickens

I bought a very inexpensive incubator and I’m trying to hatch some of my chickens’ eggs. I candled the eggs at days 6, 8, 10, and 15 to make sure they were developing and discarded the ones that weren’t. I added more eggs to fill all the spaces in my…

Aurelia’s Garden – our new donation garden

April 9, 2020

Food Pantry Garden, Starting Seeds

Our new donation garden has a name! Aurelia’s Garden. You can follow us on Instagram – @Aurelias.garden. And you can get to our website here: Aureliasgarden.org. We are a charitable farm, growing food for those with limited access to fresh, locally grown produce. We will be gardening on a…

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…

yesterday’s harvest

April 8, 2020

---, Harvests

Spinach! It was really sweet as a salad last night. I planted this last September. Some of it over-wintered in my double layer (row cover and plastic) winter tunnel, and some was only under row cover all winter. It’s a hardy plant!

the first plants in Mom’s garden

here is a template garden plan

my garden plans for 2020

a new package of honeybees

out with the cabbages, in with the tomatoes

mice in my hoop house

incubating chicken eggs

Aurelia’s Garden – our new donation garden

turning Mom’s garden

yesterday’s harvest

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