garlic dill pickles
It sort of feels like cheating to post this on the garden log, but we did grow two of the ingredients, the garlic and the dill. The cucumbers we bought […]
It sort of feels like cheating to post this on the garden log, but we did grow two of the ingredients, the garlic and the dill. The cucumbers we bought […]
The other day I was in the garden and noticed the delicate, somewhat ragged flowers on the arugula plants. The plants were overall in pretty bad shape – stringy, bug-eaten, […]
we currently have an abundance of tomatoes. they are ripening every day, too many to eat at once. we had hoped for this, and are preserving some of the harvest […]
i have been harvesting cayenne peppers every few days, or when i need some for a recipe. these were on the plants after we returned from vacation. i clipped them, […]
we decided to pull out the garlic on the 4th of july so that it would have time to cure outside before we left for summer vacation. some of the […]
the southern bed. from right to left: san marzano tomato, old german tomato, yellow bell pepper, cherokee purple tomato, rutgers tomato, sweet potato the center bed. from right to left: […]
roma tomatoes cayenne peppers sweet potato leaves baby dill [direct sown] the garden on june 6. we added straw mulch around most of the plants to help keep the weeds […]
garlic is getting bigger, mulched with straw. seedlings are all getting bigger too. to support the tomatoes as they continue to grow, we added wooden garden stakes and laced twine […]
we decided to purchase seedlings instead of starting seeds indoors. most were purchased from the farmers market, some from lowes. we planted 26 tomato seedlings (12 roma, 4 parks whopper, […]
this is now the garden looked at the start of the season. we had one raised bed in place from last year, and had planted about three dozen cloves of […]