GrandpaâÂÂs Garden is a collection of hints and tips to help you get more enjoyment out of your garden. Grandpa in his native habitat - the garden. Suggested Grandpa's Garden Articles I Guess The Last Direct Seeding I'll Do this Fall The spinach came up so I've got two boards available. I would be wise to pick up a couple six packs from our local gardening center, but I've still got half a pack of lettuce seeds. There's A Problem With Growing Lettuce In The Greenhouse I don't want to pick it. I've watched them grow, looked at them every day for three months, and every time I sit I enjoy their beauty. After I Finished Bad Mouthing My Brussels Sprouts Lo and behold I found tightly formed, aphid free sprouts hiding below. Mid August in the middle of a heat wave and I'm picking Brussels sprouts. I Could Tell That The Ground Temperature They poked up through the surface, straitened right up, unfurled their solar panel leaves and kept growing, all in one continuous flowing motion. Last year they reluctantly exited the ground and remained hunched over like old people in a rainstorm. I Limed My Garden Yesterday Well, part of it anyway. The six pound bag of lime that my wife brought home instructed me to apply 4-5 lbs per 100 sq ft. The Continuous Smoke From the Surrounding Wildfires Corn growth has slowed to a crawl. I have four patches at various stages of development and they may not make it to maturity if this continues. Yesterday Was The First Time I Didn't Go Down to the Garden It was raining. I seem to always treat the first rains like the Wicked Witch of the west. I Think Weed Barrier Fabric May Be the Gardening Trend for the Future No one has time to weed the whole garden, but everyone loves fresh produce. I've been weeding around the plants this year and weedeating the rest. The Walla Walla Onion Transplants I Put in Last November They were so wilted and wobbly for so long that I didn't have high hopes. This is by far the best onion crop I've raised. There Was a Corn Cob On the Ground I guess I've got a raccoon visiting at night. I didn't even know the corn was ripe yet because the plants are still covered in pollen. The Garlic and Onion Sets Are Already Coming Up I'll move my mini greenhouses over them when the weather turns cold and see if we can't have chard all winter again like last year. It's been such a warm November that all the cauliflower came to head and the two rows of transplanted Brussels sprouts are forming sprouts. I Started Harvesting Garlic Today They say the bulbs are done when the first four outer leaves are brown. Only my tips were brown so I dug some up to see if they were done. More Gardening Articles