It is taking every bit of self-control I can muster to avoid planting my vegetables out right now, even though I know we got another frost warning for tonight. Ideally I’d have had my plants out last week, but this…
Self-control when gardening
Italian grape
The Italian grape tomato plant — last of the seeds I stole from Italy six years ago, and the only seed to germinate — is progressing, but very slowly. I fertilized last week with a foliar spray (diluted Neptune’s Harvest),…
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 out, and they produce like gang busters all season. It’s so amazingly tasty out of the garden that I often…
Bear Claw blooms
The tomato plants I ordered from Laurel’s Heirloom Plants in California came in on Saturday! She had them packaged really well, but wow — they sure looked gnarly when they first came out of the packaging: 4 Bear Claw in…
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 was so nice, but I decided not to plant my tomatoes after all. First off, the garden looked like this…
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 stuff done outdoors before the rain came. Sydney reluctantly went out to the garden with me to help install the…
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 drip irrigation and a new squash trellis, plus I’ll talk about the confusing at home soil test I did. I’ve…
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 aide’s tenants came down the corona virus, helping Sydney get her college plan finally figured out, and executing her Zoom…
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 contenders You’ll recall that in my original post where I described transplanting mass-planted tomato seedlings, I was transplanting six Cherokee…
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 to season the straw bales. It should take about two weeks for them to be ready for planting. I didn’t…
Lovely Asparagus!
We have been so busy with the wedding the last few days that I have done very little on the garden. It’s a good excuse, but I’m ready to get back to work starting tomorrow. Look at the tight tips…
The Allure of Church at Home
Having Church at home for the last few weeks has made me realize that I could live like this indefinitely. Even though I'm what is called outgoing or extroverted, I've loved loved LOVED being at home to do church with…