Nothing very eventful today. I made another bike trip to the grocery store this evening. I left after 7:30 p.m., and it was actually dusky enough on the way back that I turned my lights on. The garden is finally bursting forth! The tomatoes are fruiting and outgrowing their cages. The zucchini are finally getting [...]
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Yes, we’re in the midst of a 90-degrees-plus (Fahrenheit) heat wave, and I’m blogging about winter. No, it doesn’t keep me particularly cool. In fact, my first reaction to seeing Cooking Up a Story’s video on starting a winter garden is to resist, run, hide my head under a pillow. I have enough work to [...]
The sun and heat have finally arrived in Oregon! We had a very cool, wet spring (almost a non-spring), which did affect gardens. But now the tomato plants are doing well, although there’s still no fruit. And we should be eating zucchini within a day or two. The carrots and green onions are finally getting [...]
It’s been a cold, rainy May, so gardening has been difficult, but we’re finally eating lettuce from the garden! Other plants are doing the things they are supposed to do, and we’ve planted a few more seeds and a tomato plant. So here are the peas. I planted them AGES ago, at the end of [...]
We officially started planting the vegetable garden this weekend. I’ve been wanting to put in peas ever since a sunny Saturday in mid-January. I weeded the beds and stirred up the soil in short sleeves, reveling in the scent of rosemary, lavender, and good clean dirt. I was tempted to sow a few seeds while [...]
