As promised, here’s some pictures of the garden’s progress. Potatoes. In front (bottom) are the 3 russets from organic store bought potatoes. The rest are reds from seed potatoes. I …
Gardening
The garden is doing super. Though I keep leaving the tomatoes out too long while hardening them off and they’re protesting with pale leaves and slowed growth, but still plugging …
The heat finally left us and we were greeting to wonderfully rainy, 55 degree weather this morning. I was thrilled. So with the rain, I didn’t bother watering today and …
I haven’t succumbed from the heat yet. The garden hasn’t either. It’s coming along quite well actually, everything is sprouted and doing well except the cucumbers, who I think just …
So the whole soaker hose/clay soil thing isn’t working as well as I thought it would. The area we planted the taters and corn in is lower then the rest, …
Sorry for the lack of bloggage – I finally was able to get busy with work and have been working and grocery shopping and other inside household stuff today. We …
So the soaker hose in clay soil is a precarious dance of getting enough water and not forgetting about it and flooding the whole potato crop in the process. Time …
I finally got some soaker hoses to try out. I didn’t have enough to do the entire garden so I did some research on soaker hoses and watering methods to …
Potatoes sprouting! At least two! I actually had to dig a little to find it, they’re kinda growing level with the ground and a little bit up. One russet and …
We have corn, we have corn, we have corn!!!! Eeeeeee!!!! Corn is the veggie I’m most excited to grow and I was so worried I wouldn’t even see a sprout! …
[image links are broken after several hosting moves, hoping to find backups somewhere] Lots of pictures here! I also replanted the early girl tomatoes in individual pots and will let …
There are oodles of purple radish sprouts now, plus the spinach is making an appearance. I’m definitely going to have to thin the white radish, there’s just tons of them. …