Our first summer of vegetable gardening has been a rewarding experience for Chuck and me. It’s sort of like being first time parents…you start out reading every book you can get your hands on…you’re a little tense and nervous about doing the wrong thing…and then finally you put up the books and follow your instincts [...]
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The garden matures
Posted in food, garden, vegetables, tagged gardening, organic gardening, raised beds, square foot gardens, squash bugs, tomatoes, vegetable garden on August 21, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Today’s garden harvest is tonight’s dinner
Posted in food, garden, vegetables, tagged carrots, corn, eating from the garden, from garden to table, garden harvest, summer harvest, tomatoes, trionfo violetto beans on July 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Today we harvested tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, beans, and parsley from the garden. Add the corn from the Nobles’ garden, along with tomatoes, snap beans, and peaches from the Haskins’ farm, and we had a veritable feast laid out before us. Here’s what we finally decided on for dinner: Trionfo violetto beans. They grow purple, but [...]
Garden of Eden July 18, 2008
Posted in garden, vegetables, tagged bean teepees, cantaloupe slings, cucumbers, eggplant, Garden of Eden, organic gardening, raised beds, sugar babies, tomatoes on July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Chuck and I welcome you to a guided tour of our vegetable garden! Come on in and we’ll show you around! more about “Garden of Eden July 18, 2008“, posted with vodpod
Putting the plants to bed
Posted in garden, vegetables, weather, tagged bedding plants, before frost, garden, growing from seeds, square foot garden, tomatoes on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last Saturday, we put the plants to bed. Literally. So, here they are, three weeks ahead of what we have been told is the last frost date, May 15. We’re taking a chance, but really not so much so. Why? Because we have more plants where these came from. We set out 8 tomato plants [...]
Seedlings are up!
Posted in food, garden, vegetables, tagged bedding plants, gardening, seed trays, seedlings, seeds, sprouting, tomatoes, transplants on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Debbie planted three trays of seeds about 2 weeks ago, and already several seedlings are up! The “big” seedlings in the foreground are cucumbers, so they’re coming right along. The second tray has tomatoes — 3 varieties — and so far we have 72 plants in one tray. All of them sprouted, so we will [...]
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