I made a lasagne last night which included layers of swiss chard from our porch garden – small leaves. The chard has hung on all winter even through freezing temperatures. Really a remarkable plant. I kept figuring it’d die off but so far it has done very well. Even as I start preparing the containers […]
Category Archives: Gardening
Square Foot Gardening
The All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew I’ve been reading the last version of the book and I’ve ordered this latest edition. Our situation is a bit different than he talks about – but not too much. Our containers aren’t in a neat 4×4 grid. Instead we’ve got five containers, each with a […]
Environmental Restoration: Buried Clay Pot Irrigation
Environmental Restoration: Buried Clay Pot Irrigation After a post on the Path to Freedom site I decided to look up more about this method of irrigation. Looks interesting!
Rainy Days
It’s been raining a lot recently. Today we’ve actually got a bit of sunshine. I took the dogs out for a walk a little while ago. We still have basil going on the porch but I don’t know that it’ll last much longer. Our last CSA delivery was on Saturday. The highlight was a bunch […]
Garden wrap-up
Our 2005 garden has mostly come to a close. I took out our Thai tomatoes today. We didn’t get nearly as many this year – the plants got some disease or something and didn’t perform well. The only thing left now is some Swiss Chard – good producer – and the basil which has done […]
So many tomatoes, so little menu ideas…
We have a pile of tomatoes to use. We have Sungold cherry tomatoes from the CSA, and a similar (if not the same) type from Ryan’s parent’s garden, small red tomatoes from Ryan’s parents, big yellow Orange Blossom tomatoes from the CSA, and our first harvest of Thai Pink Egg tomatoes from our patio garden. […]
