Life has been busy with one special event or another. Just got done with a benefit performance of Rocky Horror over at church. That was a blast!
YESTERDAY
Yesterday and today we put in some garden work. We’d started do last month but got derailed, but I think we’re definitely going now. The momentum [...]
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Snake, Strawberries, Onions, Carrot, Beans
Posted in Garden, SFG, Uncategorized, tagged carrot, Garden, nantes, onion, organic garden, racer, SFG, snake, sqaure foot garden, strawberries, sweet onion on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hello, Eggplant!
Posted in Garden, SFG on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is our most recent backyard harvest for dinner….I was thinking pasta so there were the first two eggplants, then some green basil and some purple basil, any little yellow tomatoes that were ready… and I decided to bring in the next two purple cherokees to finish ripening in the kitchen perhaps for some future [...]
First and Second Lettuce Harvest
Posted in Garden, Salad, Self-Watering on February 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Remember the lettuce we planted shortly before Winter Solstice? We’ve been eating them.
Here is one of them 12/21/07:
It was like this on 1/30/08:
On 2/8/04 it had gotten this fluffy so I decided to harvest it and its friends and make a salad:
Here is the first harvest:
Julia did not want to be in the picture. She [...]
SFG Series: Filling Your 4 x 4 ft raised Bed
Posted in Garden, SFG on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Dirt Day” is always a fun day over at my house. My preschooler looooves to dig and it’s one of her favorite parts to getting a new bed together.
In the All New Square Foot Gardening book, Mel Bartholomew suggests this formula for making up your soil mix for your raised bed:
1/3 vermiculite
1/3 peat moss
1/3 compost
In [...]
Square Foot Gardening With Children (and Kid’s Tools!)
Posted in Garden, SFG on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Introduction
I started putting in a 100 sq ft kitchen garden for myself last summer. I’m still nowhere close to being done installing beds and I’m still learning as I go along when it comes to growing edibles.
But I’ve really gotten to love spending time with my preschooler puttering around in the yard. I’ve watched [...]
Purple Dragon Carrot Harvest
Posted in Garden, SFG, tagged carrot, dragon, harvest, purple on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today was fun — carrot harvest day. Out of the 32 seeds I put in, we got 23 out. Though next time I will plant 9 per sq foot rather than the suggested 16 because they get fluffy, and then the bigger ones cover up the smaller ones and they struggle for light.
They were great [...]
One New Shelf, Two New Beds
Posted in Garden, SFG, Self-Watering on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Julia and I have been busy. Going through a fit of spring cleaning indoors and outdoors. We also had a little freeze one day so we had to cover what few plants are left in the mini garden. So today’s entry is eye-candy!
I bought a 4 ft wide chrome shelf at Target on New [...]
Lettuce Eye Candy
Posted in Garden, Self-Watering on December 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last Friday (Winter Solstice) Julia and I got a late start to our seeds. We’d been distracted with Thanksgiving and Christmas pageant costumes/rehearsals so the garden was left to fend for itself other than waterings when it didn’t rain. Today I went out to see if I needed to water and it was a cool, [...]
Spring 2008 Planning
Posted in Garden on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We had a nice Thanksgiving weekend. Saw a lot of the in-laws. But now that I’m at Sunday night and facing my week ahead, I realize that I’m going to fall behind if I don’t make some serious headway tomorrow with the garden. Here’s my timetable so I can be ready to plant out in [...]
Breaking Ground
Posted in Garden on November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We had nice, cool, crisp fall weather today so Julia and I spent about an hour and a half in the yard. We were scrubbing out our fridge drawers and kitchen trash can. Then she found a mess of feathers that she called “Treasure!” and I called “A bird got eaten by a cat!” in [...]
