In a week when the real temperature, the windchill, or both, has been below zero F everyday, what else is there to do but plan the vegetable garden? Just as my seasonal allergies get really bad in September and make me look forward to frost, planning the garden during the coldest part of winter reminds …
Category: Gardening
No Escape
When James and I moved from Los Angeles to the Twin Cities back in 1994 we were astonished at how inexpensive houses and land were out here. We ourselves still couldn’t afford it, but we thought in time we might be able to buy a 10-acre hobby farm just outside the city for the low, …
Interdependence
Well it finally happened, the Dashwoods and the Nuggets have become a flock. Just as there was no big fuss when we introduced the Nuggets to the Dashwoods, only a refusal to associate with each other, the merging was without fuss too. One day they were foraging on separate sides of the garden, then on …
Happy Samhain!
Gift from a friend We finally got frost a little over a week ago. Not a below freezing kind of frost, more of a close enough to kill the tomatoes and squash vines frost. The asters still have a few flowers and the sage and oregano are still hanging in there too. We are going …
Almost Frosty
tsp for scale Gardening season is winding down. We almost had frost Saturday morning. Almost. It has been such a warm autumn, frost is late in coming. This has allowed me and James some extra time to make repairs to the chicken coop roof, and for me to harvest one small zucchini from the garden. …
