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Life after tomato season: @ 17 degrees, how is your garden?
I snapped these this morning when it was around 17 or 18 degrees here behind the fence. A few days from now, once the cold snap passes, I’ll post the same shots to see how things recovered. Arugula ice...
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Life after tomatoes follow up 1
Today it was sunny and in the upper 40s / lower 50s again; 30 hours after the frozen shots in the previous post, things are mostly recovering The arugula ice sculpture has thawed and it appears to have...
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How to enjoy Kale?
This fall I planted some Kale (Winterbor from Johnny’s Select Seeds) after my lovely vegetarian daughter pointed out that Kale resides at the top of almost every “the most nutritious foods” list. As it...
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Under poly
After the early mistakes in the hoophouse things seem to be going a little better… I’ve done a better job regulating temperature; likewise I’ve figured out how to moderate the humidity ( i.e. keeping...
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Make Some Room for Some Summer
First: finish the bed I’d been putting off for months…. This will be for sweet potatoes and perhaps some bush beans of some sort this summer, but more importantly will allow for better rotation of some...
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Update From The HOT House
With the first two days of April bringing highs in the upper 80s, I’m struggling to keep the polytunnel ventilated well enough to keep the lettuce from bolting (the spinach is already toast). You may...
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Post Apocalyptic Kale?
Good lord, this stuff grows. The more we pick away at it, top it, or cut it off at the ankles, the more we seem to have. If Kroger evaporated tomorrow and I had to feed myself strictly from what could...
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Midsummer Photomapping Part #2
Installment #2 in the photo-mapping project covers the middle section of the back, basically the area in between the two red lines in the “sky” shot below. This was where the garden project started;...
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Around and stuff
What kale looks like if it spent the summer trying to escape from under massive basil bushes One of the last of the massive basil bushes, still providing for bees Fava bean flowers Rutabagas...
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Artichoke? Winter?
We’ve had a few nights in the low to mid 20s here lately and my hoop-house artichoke seems to be doing quite well. I have kept it covered with light spun row cover and planted two 55 gallon water...
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Transitions
The transition from the overgrown summer garden of September into the more tame fall/winter garden is slowly taking place. Overall things are still pretty shaggy, with lots of spent sweet potato and...
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Winter Soltice, Dreary Days, a Few Pictures
I took a few pictures as dusk approached a couple days back; without any further explanation, a few are posted below.
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