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Garden Week in Review

John — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:11:14 +0000

This week’s harvest. The second round of asparagus is in full swing and we are taking full advantage. I sure will be sad when we stop harvesting at the end of the month but at least I’ll be able to say that I had my fill. The radish bed continues to produce a nice [...read more]

Garden Week in Review

John — Sun, 01 May 2011 22:01:49 +0000

First asparagus harvest of 2011. The asparagus is now growing furiously. We had our first full harvest on Monday and by this weekend we’d had another two additional harvests (I consider a harvest enough to feed our family of four). Our favorite way to prepare fresh asparagus is to cut the spears into bite [...read more]

Garden Week in Review

John — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:36:56 +0000

On Monday I went out to the asparagus bed and counted eight spears poking their way up through the soil. By the weekend that number had tripled and most of them look to be nice and fat. I’ve read that asparagus planted too shallow will result in thin, spindly spears. Planting deeper yields fewer [...read more]

March Garlic and Over-Wintered Kale

John — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:48:31 +0000

Back in November I posted about my experiment planting garlic purchased at Costco. I followed that up in December with a post about how rapidly the garlic was growing despite the cooling weather and my fear that it wouldn’t survive the long New England winter.

Well I am happy to report that all of [...read more]

Peas in the Ground Today

John — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:01:50 +0000

I must say that it is such a delight to get back out in the garden on a sunny and mild March Saturday even though things didn’t quite go according to plan. It now seems that plantings will be a bit later this season compared to recent seasons. Though all of my beds are [...read more]