The high tunnel is full of green tomatoes. Ripe red tomatoes are ready daily, and they will be for another six weeks. By late October the quality of the texture and taste will diminish. Eventually I’ll force green tomatoes to ripen, and those that don’t submit to red will be…
It started on Monday. My 40-50 hour work week…it started on Monday. Unfortunately I didn’t get my shower, dressed and mascara on bright and early because I expected a desk day. A future customer called from a mile away. It’s {this close} to opening but not ready yet. “If you…
One of the questions I’m most often asked is “what does it mean when the seed packet says to plant ‘as soon as the ground can be worked?’” It’s a simple answer that has been over complicated. Soil is always soaked here in late spring because of snow melt and…
It’s hard to sit still when my April garden chore list is long and growing longer, and the snow is deep (for April) and going to get deeper. Yes, that’s right, it’s the second week of April and we still have snow. There’s more coming. I could make “plow snow…
You’re going to need your imagination for this project. It’s March 4. We’ll have eight inches of fresh snow by night fall. Spring is a month or more away. Imagine a 60 foot long high tunnel that’s somewhere around seven feet tall. This is what we have to work with.…
Beans are easy to grow and produce a lot of food from one seed. Tips on how to grow beans and a short list of the three varieties I grow. …
Last fall I planted 700 cloves of four varieties of garlic. And then plans changed. I’m not at farmers market as planned this year because the market was dismal. This morning looked as good as it’s going to get for garlic harvesting. It hasn’t rained for a few days but…
Hands Seeds Soil. Add 48° (sorry, I know… it was February and 48°, it was glorious), sun, a slight breeze and water. Glorious. I cleaned out a few raised beds in the high tunnel; weeds that could grow in a Siberian winter, broccoli I hoped would recover, and carrots that…
Garden Thoughts It’s January 7 and today’s high was 2°F. There isn’t a lot to do outside because of the loss of the high tunnel plants. It’s easy to sit down with lovely garden thoughts, a cup of coffee, paper, order form, and grand ideas of what the vegetable garden…
August 11 2017 – In My Garden Few words this week – I’m running around like crazy. It will be quiet next week as well, then life should get back to normal. Here’s what’s in the August 11 2017 garden!