We planted some collards, kale, radish and salad spinach this year for the first time and, even though we planted each in a 1 foot square plot, we got a really good crop. We harvested the salad spinach last week, the radishes two weeks ago and since and the collards for the first time this [...]
Well, I thought I’d start out with a shot of our raised bed SQFT garden. It’s been great this year. We have green ice lettuce, arugula, mesculin, spinach, and chard in the first box, four bell peppers (green, lemon (got one so far and 3 babies are growing), orange and tiny red), broccoli rabe, italian [...]
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I had a most prolific pear tomato plant that really produced in September/October, but it got too cool to ripen the toms. I pulled all the tomatoes off last week and let them sit to maybe ripen a bit before I turned them into jam. Boy, did they turn out wonderful! See the red pepper [...]
I saw the most beautiful yearling today. He had about 12″ and two tiny branches on his antlers. I was standing in the kitchen looking out the patio door and he came into the yard next to the house. He looked at ME-I looked at HIM. Wow, what a moment. He really was beautiful and [...]
We have so many cucumbers on the vine right now! YUM! I love growing food this time of year. The weather is so mild and beautiful and everything is so vividly green. I love the tiny baby cukes with beautiful yellow flowers and the fat, fuzzy, black bumblebees that pollinate them! Here is a good, [...]
Here are pictures of our SF garden. We did have fun making these mobile 2′X4′ raised boxes full of Mel’s Mix. They are easy for us old farts to move about on our tiny property and raised to let the rain drain thru. Our plants seem to like them with the chicken wire covers as [...]
Continue reading about Twofer: SqFt Gardening/Dakota’s Chicken Salad
This is my first year of urban gardening since I was a mere pup. I’m surprised to find that, in many ways, it’s not any easier than the “real” gardens of rural areas, if only because there’s so much more to do in an urban environment (like dealing with rats [!] and feral cats). In [...]
I‘m going to be painting one of the bedrooms (a lovely pale sage green) in preparation for the arrival of my free rattan bed. I’ll be popping in and out, of course, because I’m so nosy, but the painting (and a turkey stew) are my main focii today. And preparing for my first day of [...]
I live in a small city, large fenced lot. I have a covered compost bin in the back yard and a husband who is deathly afraid of smells, unsightly mess, attracting rodents or other creatures, and offending the neighbors. Tell me about worm bins, or point me to a site for research. I’m planning to [...]
Crossposted from Monkeyfister’s place with his permission so biscuit can see it – Kate All is good in the Bean Bed. As you can see, I’ve got all the twine trellises tied up (32 of them), and the Pole Beans are having a great time growing up them. All I need to do now, is [...]