Well, it is Sunday, after all! We simply didn’t go anywhere today. We decided that Trek in the Park was likely to be miserable on a hot day, during the hottest part of the day. And we didn’t need to go anywhere else. I did, however, get up early and work in the garden, so [...]
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 [...]
Posted on March 19th, 2010 in Life, Sustainability
We’re just beginning spring break in Portland, Oregon. I know not everyone has spring break this week, and I know that not everyone gets a spring break! But my husband and I are both school employees, so we have a spring break. Here’s what we plan to do. Maybe you can fit one of them [...]
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 [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2009 in food, Sustainability
So here’s what happened. Back in May, I hadn’t planted anything but a few containers: tomatoes, lettuce, basil, parsley. We’d been thinking of moving, plus I just hadn’t had time to plant the plot we’d used last year. Suddenly, wooden markers appeared around my garden plot. They were marked “driveway.” You see, our house has [...]
It’s January 30, and the last thermometer I saw said it’s 37 degrees, but it really is time to start thinking about gardening again. For me, this is complicated by the fact that we’re thinking about moving (not out of Portland, just someplace cheaper and/or possibly a different neighborhood). So I don’t want to put [...]
