Big Doings in Small Spaces

Our potager-style vegetable garden is coming into it’s own.  Summer of 2008 has been just about a perfect garden year – the weather has been beautiful,  warm but not humid and we’ve had plenty of rain.  Of course, with garden there are always high and lows, oftenat the same time.  The lone tomatillo I planted hasn’t had any fruit, and some of the tomatoes are showing signs of blosson end rot.  But then again, the watemelon is amazing, and we even have decroative white mini pumpkins growing that I never even seeded!  We bought a bag as Thanskgiving decoration at Costco and threw them onto the front bed to compost.  Well, of course over a dozen of …continue reading

Peter's Perfect Tomatoes

The husband of a friend of mine is a serious gardener with years and years of experience, and I always use his transplant method for tomatoes.  This formala is like a Cook’s Illustrated recipe – just do exactly what it says, don’t deviate from the plan, and you’ll get a great result. …continue reading

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bolting raab in foreground, peas on trellis, beans and nasturtiums in front spicey thai chilies bed with row cover in place compost-tumbler final bean harvest of 2010 beets, carrots, tomatoes, lettuce honey bee on milkweed blossom peas and broccoli raab