Planet Veggie Garden

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 [...]

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 [...]

Crop rotation has been on my mind since mid-summer. In our plan to up our production, we are putting into place the time honored practice of crop rotation.  Since we are planning a winter garden this year I had to map out not only our winter garden but our spring and summer as well so [...]

Gardening takes commitment…
commitment of time and effort to cultivate plants of course. There’s also commitment to location from a pragmatic sense. I mean you grow plants in the earth. And the earth doesn’t pack up and move… tho people do.
We’re familiar with the typical model used by urban gardeners with limited land: construct a number [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Here is a view of the main part of our (Patti and Sandy’s) back garden. To the left against the fence and not in view is the recycle bins I set up last week. Those have chard and broccoli seedlings.
In the picture on the left is four raised beds. There is rhubarb, sage, romano beans, [...]

…on every roof.

I was on a walk the other day and spied this garden tucked away on a garage roof.
Some folks don’t have space in their yard or even have a yard. As they say, where there is a will there is a way.
If you are considering a roof garden - be sure the roof [...]

We’ve been happy-hazard gardeners for… well, a long time.
The garden has always been a nice extra more than a depended on essential.
No good reason. Lack of planning really.
The “grocery store” mentality is go fetch it. Planning generally is a week ahead, certainly not 6 months ahead.
If you want the full deal of gardening [...]