Archive For The “projects” Category
I feel guilty just typing this. I’ve left my garden. Not wholly. We still see each other now and then, on the weekends. But it has been kind of awkward since I moved out. I show up to water the plants and collect the ripened vegetables. To put it plainly, the garden has just let [...]
I’ve been, thankfully, very busy lately. Hence the lack of updates. The tomato plants are as tall as I am now. I waited entirely too long to get them into proper supports. The ideal ones are those big wire cones. I finally found them the other week at the garden center. I spent nearly an [...]
Inspirational article on urban farming: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/magazine/05allen-t.html?em
These are the gifts my garden has brought me over the past few days. Looks like it is time to start giving some of these away to neighbor and friends! And if you have been following the slug saga, it looks like I’m rid of them for the most part now that I am rid [...]
Check it out! I got all the remaining grass out of my new bed and got all the rich soil in! And it was so much easier since the rains. I will probably get my transplants in tomorrow. I want to spend a little bit of time planning exactly what will go where. I think [...]
Who is doing this to my plants?? A bird? A squirrel? A neighborhood hooligan? About 7:30 this morning, I went out to water my plants and just look at what a sad scene awaited me on the porch. One of two strapping tomato seedlings I had recently transplanted into bigger containers was lying next to [...]
A number of my plants are in the ground! I hope they’re still there when I get back from my mini-vacation to Florida. It looks like it will be cold and rainy every day that I’m away. I’ll try not to worry too much about them. They are only plants, after all. The rest of [...]
