Showing posts with label Garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garden. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 23, 2023

New book

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Well, not really new. It came out in 2017, so new in the sense that we're starting to excerpt from it. As I said a couple of weeks ago, ...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

An alternative to pesticides

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About a week ago we went to a thrift store. As usual, I looked through the books. Normally I don't find anything, but once in a while I ...
Monday, July 17, 2023

Garden update

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I haven't been posting about my garden this year, but suffice it to say that it is doing very well, despite the drought. I have 150 gall...
Friday, November 11, 2022

Another year

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I put the garden to bed for the winter the other day. After a cool fall, the last few weeks were unseasonally warm. We had a hard frost in S...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Strawberries!

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OK, one strawberry, but it is the promise of more to come. I picked our first strawberry of the season yesterday, and it reminded me of why ...
Wednesday, June 08, 2022

Plant a garden!

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This excerpt from Braiding Sweetgrass stands on its own and is too good not to post: People often ask me what one thing I would recommen...
Monday, June 06, 2022

What's happening here?

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I've been silent here for a few days, and it's likely to continue. Right now I'm in the process of reading Braiding Sweetgrass ,...
Friday, October 22, 2021

Frost!

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We had our first frost of the year last night, about two weeks later than normal—and it was a hard frost. I didn't cover anything becaus...
Monday, August 10, 2020

The weekend that was

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We had a storm come through on Saturday afternoon, with winds up to 60 MPH. It knocked down both my pole bean trellis and my cucumber one; t...
Monday, July 13, 2020

How does the garden grow?

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I haven't posted much about my garden this year, but it is doing wonderfully well! We could use some rain; one of my rain barrels is emp...
Sunday, January 26, 2020

A day late

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Normally I post this on Saturday, but better late than never, I guess. It also allows me to include a post or two from yesterday. Let's ...
Sunday, October 27, 2019

Round the 'net

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We were traveling this last week, hence the lack of posts, but I still found time to read a bit. Here are some links I found of interest: R...
Wednesday, September 05, 2018

Why the two-week silence

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We were gone for two weeks, visiting family. Debbie's dad fell and is in rehab. We went to see him and to help her mom. He's doing b...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

The law of unintended consequences

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Just ran across this from Bee Culture Magazine: Neonicotinoid Pesticides Foster Spider Mite Outbreaks Ada Szczepaniec, an agricultural ent...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

Go organic!

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Just ran across this, posted by a seed company, not sure which one anymore, but I think it was Baker Seeds . The article is entitled Organic...
Friday, October 23, 2015

An explosion

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Last Saturday put an end to the garden for the year, except for the kale, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, and kohlrabi. They're a bit more c...
Friday, October 16, 2015

Frost!

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No, freeze! It didn't just frost last night, if froze. There was ice on the puddles this morning as I went for my bike ride. It got down...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Slug motels!

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Still no frost! But tonight is forecast to be a serious, hard frost at 29ºF. I'll probably get a last picking of beans today and that wi...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Hike in the woods

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Well, we went for a hike yesterday to Oberg Mountain . It's about a half hour from us along the lake shore. It was a beautiful drive, th...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Quick summary/update

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It's fall. Definitely fall. We still haven't had a frost, which is extremely unusual. The leaves are at/near peak, but today we had ...