Pookie has long been trying to get me to buy the fancy extracts sampler from Baker’s Catalog, and I finally succumbed when she convinced me that the new kitchen was a good excuse for getting them. So I’ve had these five little bottles sitting in the pantry, and I haven’t really had a lot [...]
We have recently upgraded from “throw stuff in the ground and see what grows” gardeners to “throw stuff in the ground, then read about how we could have done a smarter job of that, then see what grows” gardeners. Among the things we’ve read about how we could have done a smarter job of [...]
So we planted four types of potatoes this year, Yellow Finn, All Blue, Banana Fingerling, and Desiree. They’re very distinct-looking potatoes, as their names would suggest; the Yellow Finn is a small, yellow waxy potato, the All Blue is, well, all blue, the Banana Fingerling is a waxy, yellow and elongated, and the Desiree [...]
Our onions are starting to look like actual plants now, instead of just seedlings:
And meanwhile, in the next bed over, the radishes are rapidly expanding. Some of them are even growing their second leaves:
What’s sort of hilarious about the radish arrangement is that we laid that whole bed out with a very ambitious design [...]
We were super-excited when we moved to Maple Hoo and had enough yard space to be able to compost our kitchen scraps. One of the first things we bought for the yard was a compost bin, and we have, since day one, religiously deposited into it every compostable scrap we can. Last week, [...]
The other day we returned from a quick trip out to the garden and discovered we’d taken over 70 pictures of teensy-tiny proto plants in the garden none of which were completely in focus. Hm. Perhaps it was time to admit we needed a bit of an upgrade in the camera department. [...]
Today was a hard-labor kind of day, a day that prompted Pookie to invent the term “yardfun” to trick us all into thinking we were enjoying what we were doing. But no matter how tiresome the work in the yard is, it’s all made up for by the sight of our plants growing in. [...]
Today we re-fenced the remainder of our orchard, and took formal portraits of the trees while they were in the nude. If you look at Part 1 of this series, you can see what a difference a week makes for the leafing-out of these little guys. It never ceases to amaze me how [...]
For most of our lives, we were not big apple-eaters. I spent most of my youth thinking that I just flat-out didn’t like apples, but I’ve since come to realize the problem is that apples from the grocery store taste like ass. They’re cloying, one-dimensional, and often mealy. We’re lucky enough to [...]
Gardening Gone Wild has a post up now for their Garden Blogger’s Design Workshop examining front yard gardens. Nancy J. Ondra writes “… the front yard can be the perfect space to let our garden-freak flag fly”. Well, that’s just screaming for us to write a bit about how we skipped the “garden-freak [...]
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