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I made a funny discovery today. Well, maybe not funny to you, but hilarious for me. I’ve been picking spinach by the handful and marveling at there being no leaf miner damage at all. I thought that keeping the leaves picked reduced where they could lay their eggs. It turns out the eggs on the bottom of the leaves go […]

The carrots are up. A nice solid row that’s gonna need some thinning. I sprinkled kinda heavy because the seeds were free. My son gave them to me and said I’ll love the carrots because they’re so sweet. They are called Scarlet Nantes and are half long. Every time I pick one I’ll be thinking that I could have had […]

There are two foot tall snapdragons growing along my pea trellis and they have buds on them. They are too big to transplant so I will either have to make a new trellis or plant my peas on the fence line. If I had a north side of my garden fence, that wasn’t covered in grape vines, this would be […]

I picked broccoli leaves yesterday and they were surprisingly clean. There was nothing in the water after the first rince. I don’t know how long it will be before we eat them because the cook turned her nose up at them. Old dogs and all that. She has beets, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, chard, kale, cabbage and carrots in our second […]

I checked my seed packets to see what I’ll need to get for the January indoor planting, and realized that we’ve had such a mild winter that my garden is still full of cole crops. One of the first things you learn about gardening is the importance of crop rotation, and you will try to follow it, and be destined […]

My favorite garden tool is my lawn chair that tips back to get the kinks out of my back. I move it from sun to shade and do most of my prioritizing from it. From this throne I can see when the corn leaves are starting to turn dull, or the zucchini leaves wilt and know it’s time to water. […]