Free fertilizer?

Thomas over at A Growing Tradition (which, by the way, is a blog I just found and has quickly become one of my favorites!  You should go read him if you aren’t already!) posted a VERY interesting question today and I wanted to route you to it- and ask your opinion.  It’s a pretty well known [...]

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Honest work

Last night I did some much-need upkeep in the garden.   Unfortunately that upkeep was infanticide, as it was high time to thin my zucchinis and give the tomatoes a haircut. I hate this task- pulling up little babies that I’ve cultivated with such care (or, you know, the ones I unceremoniously crammed into the [...]

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We have beans!

WOO HOO!  I spent the weekend in glorious Newport, RI (the place is positively DRIPPING with gilded cherubs!) and came home to some positive bean life!  All of my fortex beans are sprouting, and I have glimmers of life on my Uncle Aut’s and Kentucky Wonder beans.  So far nothing with the Scarlet Runners or [...]

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Bean Nerves

I’m nervous about my beans! This weekend and Monday I built all my bean trellises and planted my beans.  There is a stand of saplings on the south edge of the garden that Ann wanted taken down (and I was eyeing the perfectly straight, perfectly sized trees for their usefulness in the garden).  So Jeff [...]

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Victory!

Finally!  I have had a successful harvest in this difficult year. On Monday, I left work a little early to head over to the farm and dig my potato plants.  They had been hit relatively hard by blight, so I was expecting a pretty sorry harvest, but I pulled up what was the most satisfiying, [...]

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Ooof!

Wow…another post about a pest, of sorts.  Though this, like blight, is actually another plant disease. Here at my house my roommates and I have a small, messy garden.  I say messy because we crammed a lot of plants into a small space and they are doing aggressively well.  Certainly not a terrible problem to [...]

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First Harvest

Pitifully small and shockingly late, I had my first harvest yesterday.  I picked two small 8-ball zuchinnis which were promptly sauteed in a little olive oil and happily eaten.   They were excellent- I do love that variety so very much. Things are finally turning into summer around here, though we are still having 60s in [...]

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I actually DO have a garden!

I swear!  I know I’ve been terribly, terribly remiss about posting here, but that’s all going to change right now.  The little plot at my CSA is coming along very nicely.  I’ve got almost everything planted. Here’s what I’ve put in over the last few weeks: 2 Varieties of fingerling potatoes (Russian Bananna and French [...]

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My first crop

I planted my first crop of the year today, and it’s an experiment:  Okra! I LOVE Okra.  Well, I should say that I love fried Okra.  There aren’t really many other ways that I like it, though a few pieces in a little gumbo never hurt me.  You can occasionally find it up here, but [...]

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I have a garden!

Hooray!  I confirmed this weekend that I will have a garden!  My CSA is letting me have a plot for myself, so I’m thrilled to be able to have something to post about again. The location is at the top of a hill, so the drainage will be excellent.  I haven’t actually been out to [...]

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