Today is garden catchup day. It’s been too cold to work, so today we made up for it. We cut…
Author: Jenny Smith
I'm Jenny Smith. I keep up with three cars, two kids, one husband, and I live on 300+ acres of rolling farmland in Northern Virginia where we look after an elderly relative. I like tomatoes, all things Star Trek, watercolor, and reading. I spend most days in the garden fighting deer and groundhogs as I pursue a graduate degree. I'm trying to be like Jesus -- emphasis on the trying.
Tomato planting day!
It finally came! I’m like a kid waiting for Santa, except instead of being excited to play with toys, I’m…
Self-control when gardening
It is taking every bit of self-control I can muster to avoid planting my vegetables out right now, even though…
Italian grape
The Italian grape tomato plant — last of the seeds I stole from Italy six years ago, and the only…
How to double or triple your asparagus yield
We end up with a lot of asparagus each year, and I mean A LOT. I have 25 asparagus plants…
Bear Claw blooms
The tomato plants I ordered from Laurel’s Heirloom Plants in California came in on Saturday! She had them packaged really…
Great weather but…
It’s beautiful outside today! It’s 70 degrees with sunshine and a light breeze — almost couldn’t be better weather. It…
Finished drip line, planting, sharing
The weather was unseasonably warm yesterday, which means a thunderstorm is coming, That meant I needed to focus on getting…
Garden testing and infrastructure
Today I’m going to post about the infrastructure we are adding to the garden this year in the form of…
A corona virus wedding
I’ve been recovering most of last week from the craziness. In addition to a scare where one of my Aunt’s…
Comparing Burpee Organic Seed Starting Mix vs Miracle Gro Moisture Control Potting Mix for transplanted tomato seedlings – Results
Well, there is a clear winner in my soil medium test, and it was not the product I expected. The…
Starting the straw bales
Well, it’s a week later than planned thanks to Sydney’s Zoom birthday and Caleb’s Zoom wedding, but today I started…