Category Archives: Gardening

[thumb:729:l] [thumb:730:l][newline] The garden continues to grow and develop. The lettuce, pepper cress, and kale plants are up and growing. The zucchini plants have gotten bigger but haven’t produced any squash yet. We may still get a few. We’ve been snacking (more like nibbling) on fresh strawberries as they ripen. Very tasty but also very […]

Surprise! The new Earthboxes arrived today. I didn’t have a tracking number and really didn’t expect them to come on a Saturday. The new version makes assembly a little easier and also comes with casters, which will make it easier to move. [thumb:642:l][thumb:643:l][newline] It only takes moments to put in the screen but filling the […]

Our seeds arrived today but there has been a change. The Black Seeded lettuce was out of stock. Baker Creek nicely refunded the money and sent along a free gift — Merveille Des Quatre Saisons lettuce. It isn’t what we planned but we might as well give it a shot.

Yesterday I noticed something exciting – the blue curled scotch kale I planted last week has already come up. The plants aren’t that visible in the thumbnail, but in the larger image you can pick them out. The kale is growing in the newly cleaned Earthbox with fresh soil. [thumb:629:c][newline] The alpine strawberries have been […]

While Kate’s busy making jam and pickles I’ve been reorganizing the porch garden. I removed another of the potato plants that wasn’t doing well. We got a few fingerlings from it but not much. I took out the blue curled scotch kale which had gone to seed and then emptied and cleaned out the Earthbox. […]

[thumb:621:l][thumb:616:l][newline] The porch garden is doing fine. The marigolds continue to put on a good show. The strawberries have grown to fill their containers and now are blooming. We’re thinking of relocating them to one of the Earthboxes. The potatoes have gotten pestered by some sort of bug and possibly some other leaf problem. I […]