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Flowering Potatoes

Flowering Potatoes

As many of you know, we have struggled greatly with growing potatoes. We've tried a couple of different containers, a couple of different soil and straw combinations, and a couple of different spots in the garden (full sun, patrial shade, etc.) and have yet to perfect the perfect growing conditions in which to produce a significant potato harvest.So, given that…
July 18, 2013
Grow, Harvest, Eat

Grow, Harvest, Eat

Happy Monday, everyone!The garden is officially starting to explode!  With so many (very) hot days, followed by a few days of light drizzles and a few heavy downpours (finally!), the garden is happy, beginning to produce and filling in very nicely! While harvests are still pretty sporadic and small, the diversity in the garden is starting to show itself on…
July 15, 2013
Knee High by the Fourth of July

Knee High by the Fourth of July

Well, if the old saying about growing corn is true, I think we're headed for a good (yet small) corn crop this year!Yes, this photo is of our Three Sisters bed in the front yard and yes, this photo was actually taken on the Fourth of July :-)Additionally, I had one bed in the back yard that refused to germinate…
July 8, 2013
Compost Overhaul

Compost Overhaul

Compost is one of those magical things that I read about (and pin about) and participate in all the time, but there's a part of me that doesn't fully believe that it will do it's job.  Do you ever feel like that?  I mean, really...You set up a spot, toss some worms in there and fill it with kitchen waste,…
July 7, 2013
Pallet Beds & Vertical Growing – Another Year, Another Plan

Pallet Beds & Vertical Growing – Another Year, Another Plan

It seems as though our pallet beds might just be our biggest challenge on our little plot.  While we love them and their ability to create a screen between our (currently empty) bee hive and the rest of the yard while giving us a bit of vertical growing space, they're really not the easiest thing to deal with or plant…
July 2, 2013
Grow, Harvest, Eat

Grow, Harvest, Eat

Happy Monday, everyone!GrowThe garden is, with the exception of one single tomato plant, doing amazingly well despite the record breaking temps we had over the past week.  I anticipate many tomatoes and peppers in the coming weeks and cannot wait for our  tomatillos to begin forming their cute little lanterns!  In the meantime, I'm enjoying checking in on the echinacea,…
July 1, 2013