This week’s haul was more turnips, mesclun, spinach, a head of lettuce, and Swiss chard. The turnips also have greens this week, which is pretty exciting (I love baby turnip greens). I also got a few more radishes out of the garden. There are couple left in the pot, with lovely greenery, but next to […]
Today was the first pick up of this year’s CSA. They’ve had a bit of a slow start due to all the rain, so everything this week was either a storage vegetable, or from the greenhouse. I got: 3 pounds of potatoes, half a pound of baby harukai turnips, a head of lettuce, and half
I’m really not sure where the weekend went, gardening-wise. I did manage to get everything potted up (four bags of potting soil later – I usually do one and half a year…) Here’s my biggest experiment: From left to right are the tomato, pepper, and Swiss chard. Since the Swiss chard was a whim, I’ll
Yesterday afternoon, since it was actually sunny out (rarer than you’d think, this year), and to anticipate the Memorial Day weekend crowd, I stopped off at the garden center after work. The haul is above. It’s pretty herb heavy – I’ve decided to try one of seemingly everything in pots in the garden, so to
My favorite bulbs – grape hyacinths (muscari) – are out. I even have a white one this year, though of course, I can’t get it to photograph correctly. I’ll have to try again if it manages to survive the next couple days of rainy weather. I have no idea why I love these guys so
After yesterday’s torrential rain, the daffodils are now out! And, I had to take my plants out of the garage on Tuesday when I discovered that the bleeding heart was sprouting. Before too much longer, I’ll be able to sow some cool weather seed crops. Yay Spring!
I came back from Florida bitten hard by the gardening bug. The transition from zone 10b to 5b is not terribly kind, and I came back to a really bleak landscape. Fortunately, it being Spring now, Mother Nature is at least attempting to please me. The above is my side garden, with bulbs very happily
My garden’s been humming along quite nicely, especially considering the heat. I guess this was the perfect year to try and only get drought tolerate flowers for the pots in the side garden. The portulaca especially are doing wonderfully out there. Oddly enough, my mini-herb garden is only doing so-so. The softer herbs bit the
