This week saw some monumental earthworks, harvest-wise. The onions had all finally fallen over, and were heaving out of the ground, and the potatoes were looking raggedy and limp. The time had come to reap those fruits of the earth and ready the beds for planting for Fall harvest. Last Tuesday we [...]
It being 4th of July weekend, it seemed like a good time to take our camera out into the heavy, humid great outdoors and take a look at the progress of Maple Hoo’s bouteous bounty. This is about as lush as the garden’s going to look this year:
The potato thicket is bustin’ out of [...]
Back in September, 2002 there was a recipe for Chicken and Bulgur Salad with Avocado Food & Wine that I decided to try because I happened to have a bottle of the recommended wine pairing (a 2001 Lindemans Padthaway chardonnay) on hand. This is the first and only time to date that I’ve flipped [...]
We were greatly encouraged by our “poking at the potatoes to see what’s going on down there” test harvest last night, and discovered the Desirees were already way bigger than we really wanted them to be. They were the first of our potatoes to sprout, and the first to flower by far, and now [...]
On a day that saw some full-on, grown-up, for-reals vegetables pulled up out of the ground, we were equally excited to see some wee baby crops developing around the other beds.
For starters, the nardello peppers are spending all their energy growing peppers the size of the entire tiny plants. We should probably take [...]
The potato plants are, officially, completely out of control at this point.
This picture was taking four days ago, and the plants are actually about a quarter again as big now as they were then. If this goes on much longer, they are going to swallow up our house. Which means it’s time to [...]
Okay, so today is Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, a series we absolutely adore. It’s such a great idea to gather pictures from garden bloggers the world over, because it’s a ton of fun to see how things are growing on other parts of the planet, and to see how universal a gardener’s pride is. [...]
We’ve mentioned once or twice in this space how much we love our fancy watering cans. The reason we need their awesomeness is that we attempt as often as possible to eschew watering our garden with well-water and a hose, opting instead for rain water from collection barrels.
It can be a total drag, [...]
While trimming some of the extra branches at the bottoms of the tomatoes, I took a closer look at where the first blossom on the Black Plum had been on May 15th. Lo and behold, it’s turned into a tomato!
We’ll be eating garden-fresh pasta sauce in no time!
Now that the hockey season is over, it’s time to turn the full volume of our obsessive tendencies to the garden! And as of June 1, things in there are starting to look pretty, well, gardeny.
For starters, there are the potatoes, with the first potato bloom of the season:
The plants themselves, meanwhile, are waist [...]
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