Warm Weather Respite
During this week of nice weather, we will do a lot of clean up. Odds and ends of plants sitting around that didn’t get planted for some reason or other, such as too small or ran out of room in a...
View Article-19F and Still Growing
I went out to the garden the other day to check out the beds that were planted last fall. We had planted three beds, one bed of a leaf lettuce mix, one of spinach, and one bed of Bibb lettuce. The Bibb...
View ArticleHome made hoop house made from re-purposed shade canopy
This fall I put together a homemade hoop house, which is just another name for an unheated, temporary greenhouse. I’ve had small hoop tunnels in the past, just big enough for plants to grow but that’s...
View ArticleHoop House lettuce in the winter – Part One
In my last blog posting I wrote about building a hoop house out of reclaimed shade canopy parts. After covering the structure I amended the soil with composted chicken manure. Once the soil was...
View ArticleUnheated hoop house no match for record cold winter
I promised to update you on how my lettuce did through the winter. Things were going quite well, I was harvesting lettuce after the first round of the Arctic Vortex. Even after the second round of the...
View ArticleQuilt gardens tour in Elkhart Indiana
We recently visited the Quilt Gardens, a really fun ongoing garden tour in the Elkhart Indiana region. Volunteer gardeners from that area installed more than a million plants in eighteen gardens....
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