Sigh
Today, we are not planting potatoes in the cold frame. View toward the upper garden and view toward the lower garden (from the safety of the porch) and the seed starting area in the house… On the other hand, it would be a good day …
In Season & Fresh from the Garden, the Fields, the Orchards & the Woods
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Postcard From The Meadow
Yes, this is a food related post. Look closer… can you find the honey bee? her butt sticking out from one of the snowdrops? “her” indeed… they are all “she”, you know. ah… honey: the food of the gods! bee barf! On warm sunny days, …
Lovely Lemony Sorrel
There are indubitable signs of springs out there (besides the 2 minutes of additional daily daytime we are getting now). For once, the snowdrops are nodding their tiny white bells in the still blustery gusts of wind and then, then!, yellow IS swelling the buds …
Of Seeds And Mice
Swiss Chard and Cardoon. Cardoon!!! Since those two are not interested in mice hunting in the greenhouse (only the great outdoors)… … we had to resort to those: …baited with organic peanut butter – no less. Round 2: minus 2 mice. Ungerminated flats also moved …
It’s That Time Of The Year Again
Yes? Yes! YES! It’s that time of the year. Nooo… not the time of cherries (although that will come too), but even better: the time to start seeds for the spring & summer kitchen garden. I am giddy, giddy, giddy. First of all, the days …
Growing Chayote in Virginia
Growing what? You know… “chayote” (sometimes spelled “chayotte”), also known as chouchou, chocko, christophine, mirliton, vegetable pear. You don’t know? Time for today’s lesson, then: Sechium edule, a member of the cucurbitacea family (or if you prefer a cousin of squashes and cucumber), originates from …
Enamored of Mache
The last three winters since we’ve been here, I have been able to grow salad greens throughout most of the winter. While it dipped down to 0F (-18 C) in February of 2007 (or was that 2006?), there was a thick snow cover that helped …
Peachy-Wild Berries Jubilee
A few weeks ago, I blogged about picking up berries in the hedge rows – free wild food… well.. free as in “spend no cash”, but after several hours in the delightful mugginess and bugginess characteristic of a Virginia summer, the numerous scratches that you …
Of Beans Growing
Gardening keeps you humble. Here you are: pretty proud of yourself, because you’ve been gardening for over twenty years – you’ve even had some pretty good years and raised some unusual plants; you’ve dabbled in all kinds of things; have propagated a lot of your …
Out numbered, out composted
I really thought I was a pretty serious composter. I have two large (at least 5 x 5 x 4) bins going at once, often three – mmmhhh… “piles” would probably be a better word than “bin”, although I do try to corral my compost …