By John, on May 3rd, 2009 |
 The dear wife is behind on her seed starting this year so I’m trying to hedge my bets a little bit and get an early jump on this warm weather by supplementing our efforts with commercially grown seedlings. There’s not yet much variety at any of the local garden centers but I took a flyer on a couple six packs of peppers – jalapenos and purple bell. Since she has designs on the raised beds I had to …continue reading
By John, on April 22nd, 2009 |
 Last year we built a raised bed and planted 40 Jersey Giant asparagus plants. Over the summer they all came up and we had a beautiful “wall” of 3-4 ft high fronds. This is now the second season for the plants and supposedly we can do a light harvest so I carefully cut about 5 of the stalks to sample. Just like everything else in the garden, fresh asparagus is so much juicier and flavorful than …continue reading
By , on February 28th, 2009 |
Our raised beds warm up pretty fast, and I was able to plant Maxigolt peas today. Of course, we are just about to enter Mud Season here in New Enlgand and a Nor’ Easter is on the way tomorrow, but I planted them anyway! Last weekend I started seeds; Redbor kale, Mizuna mustard grrens, Bright Lights chard and Sessantina broccoli raab. …continue reading
By , on July 29th, 2008 |
 A Roma on the left, and a Marvel Striped on the right. The Roma came form Lowes to replace a Cherokee Purple that was mysterioslu brokne off at ground elvel, and I think it went into the ground June 1. Roma’s are 76 days so it’s way ahead. Marvel Striped …continue reading
By , on July 19th, 2008 |
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
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The dear wife is behind on her seed starting this year so I’m trying to hedge my bets a little bit and get an early jump on this warm weather by supplementing our efforts with commercially grown seedlings. There’s not yet much variety at any of the local garden centers but I took a flyer on a couple six packs of peppers – jalapenos and purple bell. Since she has designs on the raised beds I had to …continue reading
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