Beware of Rabbits: April 2014

Monday, April 28, 2014

Three things have come out of the garden recently. First, the asparagus harvest has been going well. We had enough for a meal,

This is my fifth year of backyard gardening, and for many of those years, I was experimenting in two ways. First, I was trying to see

I harvested the last of my parsnips. Some of them had started showing their age...their skin had become bumpy and large crevices had formed

I only have one plant in the cabbage family in the garden. It is a brussel sprout plant that Just. Won't. Die. It survived winter and started

My asparagus patch is sending up spears! I've harvested only 5 spears so far, but more are coming up every day. Since this is Year 3 for my

I no longer till my garden. There are two reasons why...first and foremost, because of the style of gardening that I use, there really is no

This weekend's gorgeous weather led me to plant 4 more seedbeds. In doing so, I uncovered some vegetables that I did not expect to find.

We have a greenhouse in our backyard. It was on the property when we purchased it over 4 years ago. Our home was built in 1972, and had