Author: Bob Bauer

The first picking of fall planted spinach resulted in a large bowl full. They didn’t look like much on the ground, but just the outer leaves filled the bowl. We have another month before the hard November freezes when I’ll cover them with plastic covered hoops. Last year saw an overwintered row, so with luck and timing I may be […]

Yesterday I discovered baby carrots growing in the shade under the Jasmine Nicotiana. I had planted them in early spring and thought the slugs had gotten them. I forgot about them and some germinated, grew a bit, and then went dormant due to the lack of sunlight. Beets went dormant last year when the asparagus ferns grew over them. They […]

We are eating corn on the cob again :). After the freeze killed the stalks I picked all the ears and put them in the refrigerator. I don’t know if they ripened in there or just turn yellow when cooked. I don’t care, I’m loving it. It’s like getting back corn that was robbed from you. It may not be […]

The good thing about all these freezing nights is that they have killed the aphid on the Brussels sprouts. It’s clean pickings now. The whiteflies are still alive, and the aphid on the corn have survived. The leaf miners on the chard did not freeze, and the aphid on them are still moving. I’m beginning to understand why some people […]

Last night had a frost and a hard freeze. It nailed everything. All the tomato leaves are burned and all the corn too. The eggplant and peppers are burned, and half the leaves on the grapevines surrounding the garden are toast. My summer garden is officially over for the year, I hope your’s isn’t. The crows that have flown over […]

The sun sets behind the mountain at 6:00 pm now, and the garden goes dismal. It’s amazing to me how significant sunlight is to the beauty of what we behold. The bright light is cheering to our emotional mood, and brings more joy than it has a right to. The colors move me to appreciation in depths that elude me. […]

I got to pick a bowl of peas yesterday. It was about half as much as what would be expected from two 6′ rows, but one of the rows was so stunted by whiteflies that it is only a foot tall. It has short, curly, distorted leaves and misshapen pods. The other row, on the other side of the garden […]