We have crocus.   A full month earlier than last year.    The contrast of this winter to last winter continues to crack me up. In other news, the grow light is going, as of yesterday.    To the left, all of my kale planting has sprouted.    To the right, a solitary Swiss chard.

It’s begun!     I’m totally pirating multiple seed starting systems this year.     I wanted little pots, but still needed some larger trays, so I’m reusing the tray for the pods from last year.     Filling those with soil and getting it wet through took forever! Here’s the germination set up, on

Why yes, it is the last weekend in February, and my back yard is snow free. And I do have the following sprouting the side garden: It’s almost a little hard to believe last year happened…

We’re finally set to have some sort of wintery precipitation tomorrow, and it’s gotten a little colder.     Seemed as good a reason as any to finally put the garden away.    So, this morning, things went from the above… to the below.     Feels like a crazy end of an era. Things

So this is still my garden, as of last Sunday.     I had intended to put it to bed, but it was still so green!    I did put the mint away – it was looking pretty scraggly.     But the sorrel, chard, thyme, and parsley still look great. Heck, I still have

I’ve been a little under the weather since last Friday (hence the dearth of posts that I’m now trying to slam in over this weekend).     But the above was Monday night’s Swiss chard harvest.     That’s right, Monday, November 23rd.     Because it’s been a really warm Fall. Warm enough, that

The weather is just wacky.   It’s so freaking warm.   I mean look at the Swiss chard!   Because it can survive a frost or two, it’s doing beautifully.   So it’s made putting the garden to bed this year problematic. Some things are done – I pulled out the clematis yesterday, so that

So I pulled the tomatoes out last Saturday.    One of them was mostly dead, and there was a frost coming.    I’d like to take note of the lush shiso and nasturtiums above.     They’re gone now.    That frost was definitely a game changer.