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There was dirt scattered across the shavings in the greenhouse aisle yesterday. The birds had been scratching in the Perpetual Spinach bed. At first I was annoyed but quickly realized that they were eating the leaf miner larvae that were overwintering in the soil. This might be a good time to discourage the cats from hanging out in the garden. […]

All of the garlic are up now, some as tall as 3″. I’ve had to weed the patch already to, not because of weeds , but because of a plethora of poppies plants. When poppies finish going to seed their stems are tan colored like straw mulch, so when they fall to the ground I leave them, hence I’ll never […]

The garlic and onion sets are already coming up. That’s got to be a new record. The warm days and nights of November gave them no time to go dormant. I wonder how early flowering bulbs will be this year. They will probably come up under the snow. I like the new life in the garden, it looks like spring […]

I scored a whole wheelbarrow full of wet hay this morning for mulch, and it made it all the way around two melon mounds. It’s a welcome looking contrast to all the melon mounds that are encircled by leaves. I don’t have any leaves in storage for spring yet because I keep finding more places for them. I’m also putting […]

The only problem with the incredible amount of kale I have growing in the garden this fall is that it’s beginning to taste like broccoli to me. I’m going to try putting Apple Cider Vinegar on it to kill the taste. It’s the jagged leafed purple and green kind that used to taste more like spinach. The cook loves it […]

I’ve never had aphids up in the florets of cauliflower heads before, but this year one of the plants in the greenhouse did. They got up into the tiniest crevasses and sucked the plants juices until they got too fat to get them out. I kept breaking the head into smaller and smaller pieces and spraying them with the hose […]

Now that the leaves have fallen off the grape vines it’s a good time to cut them back. It’s much easier to see where you want to cut . I don’t think there’s a right way or wrong way trim them unless you’re a commercial grower. Grapes only form on new growth, so they cut them way back. My vines […]