I am finally now working on the fall garden. Earlier sowings this month just did not make it: it was too hot and too dry for germination. A little rain though, and arugula, cilantro and dill are popping up. Yesterday I pulled the corn stalks from the lower garden (approving clucking noises in the chicken [...]
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Comments(1) I’ve been waiting for them not- so-patiently. It’s probably been the hardest year in the garden since we moved here - at least when comparing input to output. It’s been a rough year weather- wise, following several years of rough-weather.
This year we had no spring; summer and drought arrived in April; we broiled in July [...]
Read More..>>Early Girl is blushing!
The rest of them Amish Paste, Green Zebra, Cherokee Purple, San Marzano,White Wonder et all are actually looking pretty good.
Just not ripening yet!
Read More..>>The June garden can be quite overwhelming. There is a lot to seed still, a lot to rip out, a lot to build, a lot to maintain, a lot to harvest, and a lot to clear and get ready for the next crop. We plant continuously here at Laughing Duck gardens, and try to put [...]
Read More..>>Picking up strawberries in the garden on a warm day is a true sensual experience.
Your eyes are caught by the bright vermilion peeking not-so-shyly from under dark green leaves; your fingers caress grainy plumpness; the warmth of the noon sun radiates on your back; the whole garden is humming around you; the heady perfume [...]
Read More..>>I know it’s a little wild looking.
but:
the raspberries are very strong and lush despite a very dry April (and I managed to put a netted trellis for them, so the branches stay upright, hopefully making harvesting easier)
the Shirley poppies are absolutely gorgeous - although they have been allowed to take over the asparagus bed. The [...]
Aren’t they beautiful?
They are earlier than the last few years, I may be able to pick in late May. While winter was cold and snowy (which currants like), the ground was protected from extreme cold by the blanket of snow - something we don’t have very often in Virginia. So the ground may actually have [...]
Read More..>>… start a vegetable weekly subscription and make Mongolian-style sauce (lots and lots of it!)
I certainly grow more than we can eat - and we eat lots of veggies! Yet I don’t grow enough for selling at a Farmer’s Market or to a restaurant. But even with all the preserving I do, it’s too much [...]
A month ago, we were under 2 feet of snow with night temperatures in the single digits. This week we garden in short-sleeve shirts and harvest mache, baby lettuce, just-emerging sorrel, baby arugula, escarole and… spinach - lots and lots of spinach. Finally!
The spinach was not planted in the hoophouse but outside. Last spring we [...]
Read More..>>It does roll good off the tongue, doesn’t it? or is it just me?… “a gross of tomatoes”…
Except of course, they are not yet tomato plants, just 144 seeded cells with the promise of 144 seedlings. Seeded on Februray 22 (although the labels read 2/21 because I meant to do it on the 21st but [...]
