Hardening off. The growing season at our Pebble and Fern gardens is quite short. This is a fairly cold-Wintered area (cold-Summered too, sigh). To get a good yield of the vegetables that need more frost-free days than our climate permits … Continued
Oh Garden, my love. I hope you had a good sleep. You seem to have pressed the snooze button a few extra times and now we are a little behind in our planting schedule but it sure is nice to … Continued
The weather is being quite uncooperative so we took the unprecedented step of planting some Broad Beans in cell-packs. Eep! We are putting in a pretty large crop of Broad Beans this year. There was a lot of demand for … Continued
Blue sky for a change! Six long frozen months make a day spent in our new little Greenhouse feel like a trip to the Tropics. The daytime temperature inside the greenhouse is holding between 50º and 75º F and that … Continued
Today’s the Big Day! Time to sow this year’s crop of Tomatoes. Four big foam coolers are set up with bottles of hot water for bottom heat and six hundred teeny-tiny seeds are pressed into their nursery cells. Now we … Continued
I am pretty sure that Kale does indeed make you nicer. Honest to goodness! We grow a lot of Kale in our market garden and it is really nice to see that people are growing ever more fond of this lovely … Continued
April in the Garden. This is the path to the greenhouse. Pretty lazy snow shoveler. I guess I figure that the guy that put the snow there ought to be the one to take most of it away. Also, there … Continued
The very first gardening book I ever read was “The Self Sufficient Gardener” by John Seymour. Lucky for me! I find that it is pretty easy to get lost in a sea of “How-to” information. A landslide of websites, blogs, … Continued
Here there be monsters. The Radish of the Horse. Horseradish. Garden books, gardening advice columns (do they still have those?) and experienced gardeners offer dubious warnings about Horseradish. One of those warnings came from wondrous and very wise Gardener that I … Continued
One of the nice things about growing a market garden is that we get to bring varieties to the market that are unusual and that you would never find at the grocery store. Runner beans are one of those vegetables. … Continued
