Starting plants for Autumn…

  It took me a few years to get a fall garden going. Every year I THOUGHT about it, but it just never happened. I might harvest a few loose beets, or keep my kales, collards and chard going until frost. But to replant peas? Replanting all the greens? Lettuces....

Peppers…They’re Perennials!

This time I’ll be highlighting a lot of the pepper varieties that we have this year. Sweet or hot, all peppers are perennials. So either grow them in pots or dig ’em up from the garden but either way bring ’em indoors before it gets below 50 at...

A look at this years tomatoes…

This year I wasn’t as experimentative with the tomato selection, which is not to say what I’ve picked to share with you is boring….but maybe not as “selective.”  Last year I got a lot of weird looks for what I thought were the greatest...

Ready for your Spring Garden?

March 17th is the planting date (in Zone 7a) for Broccoli, Collards, Kale, Red and Green Cabbage, Spinach, Orach, and Cauliflower. With the exception of the Orach, all of these plants will need some sort of protection from Cabbage Worm, especially if you’ve...

Evolution.

February 2009 I moved into my home. I built the first things I had ever built, 6 square raised beds. There are nails sticking out of the ends and they are a little bit crooked because I didn’t brace the corners. But they’re still holding on. I keep them...

Nutsedge

WHAT is this grass growing all over my yard? I pull it out, it comes back. Over and over all season long. A friend told me her husband calls it coffee grass, and that got me intrigued. A way to get a coffee flavor, locally, in abundance? I’m in!! So the research...