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 to continue to grow some veggies while the temperatures drop…
Happy Monday everyone! Thankfully, the past week finally brought us some much needed rain! Not only has it helped to calm our spirits a bit, but the garden has loved the respite form the heat as well as the moisture from the skies. Rain water must have some magic in it because it affects our veggies unlike any water we…
Happy Monday everyone! This week brought a mixture of harvests, including the first jalapeno and the first Happy Hot Peppers! Dave, I’m hoping you might have some insight/shared curiosity about why ours went straight from green to red instead of the pretty orange you’ve gotten in the past. Very interesting…I guess we’ll wait and see what happens with the other three experimental…
Happy Monday everyone! Something very exciting happened this week! We harvested our first three tomatoes!!! Yep, you read that right…two Yellow Taxi Tomatoes and one cherry tomato! Oh man! I guess that starting those seeds under the grow lights in February really paid off 🙂 We also harvested our first dill, the last of the over-wintered carrots, and some more…
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 a lot of mint.Definitely not sufficient. I’m not sure what…
