Snap peas are one of my favorite early spring veggies. One year we were enjoying fresh peas every day until one day we ventured out and all of our 8 foot plants were dead. It turns out a rabbit had the munchies and snacked on the bottom three inches of our pea plants effectively killing the rest of them....
With all the sunshine today, we took the opportunity to build 2 more raised beds, prune the grapes, thin the garlic (it came back from last year), transplant the everbearing strawberries, and plant a bed of onions.
Who knew? In case you are not at all familiar with loofas, they look like tubes of shredded wheat and are often sold as bath sponges right next to the nylon poofy things. Pretty much everyone we told this year that we were growing loofas, said, “Mmm…and I always thought they came from the sea.” ...
Recipes for carrots welcome 🙂 Oh, and we also pulled the bushel gourds, a lost potato and some onions today.
This represents about half of our potato crop this year. Pretty pathetic when you considered we planted 20 spuds.
We started last weekend heading out to go camping. Our house was in the path of Irene but our camping plans were far enough west that we thought we’d be safe. We spent time with Boo Boo, raced pedal carts, and worked on our mini-golf stroke. Saturday afternoon the forecast changed so we decided to...
Some folks plan their garden around what they actually eat. Some grow what is easy. Some grow what everyone else does. We do a little of those things but mostly we just pick up a seed catalogue in late winter and start picking things that look fun and different. While this salsa may look pretty...
So we planted baby onions last fall. The didn’t do much in our hard clay and in the cold weather. We just left them and were a little surprised this spring to see that they survived the winter. Since we re-designed the garden this year into raised beds, we moved them in hopes that the...