It is always exciting when our vegetable garden starts producing. After a few failures in the past two summers due to pests, disease and/or uncooperative weather, it is encouraging to see the plants bursting forth with tiny veggies that will continue to grow into harvest-able crops. I’ll get to those mini-veggies in a minute, but [...]
The veggie garden seems like it has grown by leaps and bounds the past couple of weeks. Here is a shot taken two weeks ago, followed by a recent shot: That’s what a few batches of compost tea will do! The zucchini (upper right of the bed) is already producing. The flowers are always so [...]
Last week, I wrote about the new garden bed I built on the north side of the house. Although I’ve been growing veggies in raised beds in other parts of the yard for the past couple of years, I decided that I needed to do something different this season. The main reason for building a [...]
Sometimes, a simple week away from the everyday life can have profound effects on one’s peace of mind. When we chose our camping destination in Colorado, it was important to us to be in an area that was free of as many artificial distractions as possible. We didn’t want electricity. We didn’t want running water. [...]
As the lettuce continues to mature, the spinach offers yet another harvest, and the broccoli is producing side shoots like crazy, I know the winter garden is almost done. I still have a few rows of carrots going, and hopefully I can harvest them in another month or so, but I’ve already started switching beds [...]
