Well, I made it. Without killing everything. Without driving myself insane. And with a ton of vegetables. Not as many or as well as my gardening mentor, who could grow a pepper from her pinkie, but not bad. A couple weeks ago I finally put my garden to bed for the winter. A … [Read more...] about Putting the Garden to Bed: The end of my first year of gardening
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Garden Update
My garden is growing up. After I harvested the last of my arugula over a moth ago I put in lettuce, endive, kale and spinach. I took out my barren pea vines and sprinkled fenugreek and cilantro everywhere. Now that's all coming up and I harvested my first lettuce and kale two … [Read more...] about Garden Update
Fresh From the Garden: Peas, Cucumbers, Rainbow Chard, Sorrel, Epazote, Fenugreek, and Arugula
My garden mini-exploded. I blinked, and all of a sudden a giant cucumber was living under some leaves I'd tied up to a stake. The next day I shuffled a few more leaves - two more cucumbers! It's a very strange feeling to "discover" a foot-long cucumber "hiding." Peas I'm … [Read more...] about Fresh From the Garden: Peas, Cucumbers, Rainbow Chard, Sorrel, Epazote, Fenugreek, and Arugula