Planet Veggie Garden

well, Winter is long past and we are nearly a month in to Spring. It was hard to get out into the garden (whine, whine) in the cold damp winter so we just let nature do it’s thing.
In the Fall, we had planted: garlic, carrots, beets, daikon, watermelon radishes, kale, chard, mustard, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuces, [...]

Time to celebrate. We’re back on the road to productivity…It’s safe to go back into the garden!

A Piece of the Rainbow

After the rats ate all our chard, we began to go into withdrawal. We love chard!
Though it was the end of summer we went ahead and started some seeds in an undisclosed location to transplant [...]

We’re fortunate to live in a moderate climate (Zone 9b) with year round temps that don’t typically go below 40 degrees F (4 degrees C) or above 90 degrees F (32 degrees C).
Nonetheless, I’d like to grow year round.With fewer sunlight hours and cooler temps things are most definitely slowing down.
Cooler weather growing options
Greenhouses of [...]

Garden beds on vacation

We’ve been spending a good bit of time getting the garden beds ready for…Vacation. Not our vacation, but their vacation.
We moved a couple boxes and added a couple more. Boxes #1 and #4 were moved. Boxes #2 and #3 were added.
We set up #4 as a no-dig box. (Right now we have [...]

Interesting timesThe U.S. stock market annihilated $1.2 trillion dollars of “equity” yesterday. Other markets around the world concurrently took heafty losses ahead of and following that umm, spectacular day.
I suspect some us feel less financially secure than a week ago. And if you take that feeling to the grocery store, well you’ll be matching your [...]

Have you ever planted potatoes?
The argument against growing potatoes is:they’re cheap to buy, not worth growing (unless you have somewhat unlimited growing space).The argument for growing spuds is:Ahh, they taste so good fresh out of the garden. And a secondary argument is you can choose many different varieties that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to [...]

kale…
From yesterday’s post we know Kale is one of the most nutritious vegetables you can grow.
Kale is considered a Fall to Spring vegetable since cool temperatures and light frost improves the flavor. Heat creates a more intense flavor which I myself enjoy. Heat also tends to make kale bolt – or go to seed. One [...]

For the most part we take dirt for granted. We even speak of it disparagingly… dumb as dirt, old as dirt.And if you’re not a farmer, you generally take water for granted. We’ll leave that discussion for another day.
Today let’s talk dirt.Not celebrity dirt. But that amazing substance that’s simultaneously composed of rotting decaying material [...]

Garden Section A

Garden Section B

Garden Section C

We spent last weekend pulling out the tomato and cucumber plants – just about the last of plants.
We then moved a couple boxes and set up a couple new boxes.
The garden is now divided into three section (A, B, C).
Looking back at Guide to Rotating and As the [...]

well, not exactly as in literally gardening at midnight.
I’ve been thinking of the moon lately – especially since it was just one of my favorite Chinese holidays the Autumn Moon Festival. The 15th day of the 8th lunar month – September 14th this year – gives us the most incredible Harvest moon – rising on [...]