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A Juicing Garden

Herb gardens, salad gardens, cutting gardens, butterfly gardens, knot gardens, rock gardens, water gardens, rose gardens, wildlife gardens, potagers. What about a juicing garden? I’ve reorganized and replotted my garden four times already.  The latest version includes a juicing garden, designed to ease my transition to an 80% raw foods diet. ... [See more]

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Microgreens

Microgreens I’ve spent the last several days going through my old seeds and deciding what to use and what to toss.  I generally have no trouble germinating seeds that are three or four years old.  I don’t even store them under particularly ’seed-friendly’ conditions, and yet many of them still produce. Now, that’s fine,... [See more]

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It’s Never Too Early

Three weeks into the year and I’ve already received all of my seed catalogues.  I’ve spent the last few days laying out my garden plan on the computer.  Already the list of jobs to do (outside of planting, seeding, etc) is a mile long.  We usually begin with whatever jobs weren’t finished last year.  Makes sense.  These are as... [See more]

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Polytunnel Panic

I was worried that my beautiful greens might take a wee bit of a hit tonight (-2 predicted), so we rigged a temporary mini hoophouse over the garden bed.  It was a very last minute decision – made at about 4pm – and I think we did well. We happened to have several yards of 3/4 inch flexible black pipe, so we cut five ribs to a length... [See more]

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A Balmy Lack of Beans

Today was a balmy 13C and I took my first cuttings of my winter greens. I never eat my salad greens until I’ve washed, spun, and crisped them up in the fridge, so unfortunately, I won’t be tasting them until lunchtime tomorrow. For supper, I made vegetarian Boston Baked Beans. I won’t be tasting them until tomorrow too, because they’re... [See more]

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Put the Cob Down and Back Away From the Compost

With all of the tomatoes ripening on the counter, it was no surprise to find a few fruit flies flitting around. I detest them. So, in a mild panic, I decided to get every scrap of food off the counter and into the fridge, and I put the kitchen compost outside on the back step. I planned to take it down to the garden when I was finished my “Salsa... [See more]

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It Looks Like a Plant, It Behaves Like a Plant, It’s Not a Plant

I harvested potatoes and onions today. The onions are perfect, round and uniform – I’m quite pleased. The only bummer is that I didn’t plant enough of them. The potatoes are from my second planting, which I did in the experimental stacked bins. Russet Burbanks in all three. RBs are a late season variety and one of the best for... [See more]

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Critter Ridder

Something’s feasting on my winter spinach. I can recognize rabbit damage when I see it, so I’ve started a nightly cayenne ritual. I grew the pretty pepper plants two years ago to defend my garden against small critters. They were gorgeous plants, very bushy, just dripping with bright red finger-sized peppers. I dried them and stored... [See more]

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Pepper Pride

Another frost warning tonight. This time, with help from family, the plants were covered while it was still daylight. It may be the first of October, so frost protection is a little silly, but my peppers need more time and I intend to give it to them. I planted them when they were little twigs with their tops chewed off; I made hot caps for them... [See more]

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Sunshowers on a Cloudy Day

It was a strange day of intermittent sunshowers. Capricious weather. Mercurial. Jeckyll-and-Hyde. The clouds would part, the sun would burst through, then the rain would come. It’s a lovely time to be outside, actually. The sunlight flashes off the dripping plants and leaves you too dazzled to do any work. But, since harvesting can hardly... [See more]

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