As I mentioned earlier this week, I do believe that our summer will quickly transition into fall this year. With cooler weather at our doorstep (or, at least, on its way), I’ve been thinking a lot about our fall and winter garden. Last year’s winter garden failed miserably. We literally…
Can one actually grow tomatoes inside throughout the winter? Well, I guess we’ll find out soon enough, ha? So far, the process has been fairly painless…the cuttings rooted well, transplanted fine and even recovered enough in the last month to put out some new growth and several little flowers! So,…
While it always feels funny to me to start fall crops in the middle of summer, I am learning the importance of giving them the opportunity to get their roots under them well before the temperature drops. This will be our third fall and winter during which we will attempt…
Happy Monday, everyone! We had another beautiful week, but it ended in a bit of snow and freezing temperatures. So far everything looks OK but it’s supposed to freeze again tonight, so we’ll see. I’m still worried about our fruit, but there’s really nothing for it but to keep my…
Happy Monday everyone! What a week it’s been! We had beautiful weather pretty much every day this week except for Sunday, which was absolutely disgusting…windy and grey and dusty and gross…so darn windy that plastic to one of my hoop houses is pretty much torn to shreds. We attached a…
Each year that I have planted a garden, I have planted at least a few herbs and teas…Basil, chamomile, echinacae, dill, oregano, kota, sage…The first year: nothing. The second year: we put in the mint and it did great. The third year (last year): a little bit of basil and…
Happy Monday everyone! We’ve got some more greens to report this week! Enough to actually make a couple of small salads! I checked on our wagons again and things are looking steadily better, I even poked my finger around a few carrots and they seem to be sizing up nicely…
I may be getting a bit ahead of myself here, but I’m longing for spring and feeling like testing a few boundaries. Since we have our grow lights in place, happily helping along our greens, some herbs and even a few bush beans, I figured it was worth a little…