The season has turned, from being one where we watch the tiny flowers and fruits and wonder just when they will be ready to harvest, to where I have to make several trips out of the garden with armloads of vegetables. There is a considerable shift on our table, as well. Late spring meals tend…
Tag: Organic Gardening
A Small Task
The coriander in the garden has all gone to seed. Some years I will be so busy with things, I leave it to moulder and keel back over into the earth. This year I noticed it, drying beside the calendula, and pulled some of the stalks. It was difficult to pick the seeds off the…
Onions!
Some tears were shed this week as we harvested the onions to make space for the Dudley farm corn, which will hopefully be planted this weekend. These onions are strong, and I unthinkingly rubbed one of my eyes after pulling several armfuls. We got a lot of each kind – red, white and yellow,…
Garden Change
Not much was going on in my garden the past couple of months….I stopped planting in January, and it has been the easy, fun harvest-to-table time that makes gardening such a pleasure. You forget about the hard work it took to build and tend it, and only think of how many more rows of such-and-such…
Eating From The Earth
My garden is finally starting to look like something. I was so behind this year, and the cold weather was a long time coming. A lot of the brassicas really didn’t like the heat. They are finally looking happy. It’s a small garden this year, compared to other years, but we are getting so much…
Planting Potatoes And Sharing Beans
This morning my great uncle called. Years ago he had passed along a bag of long beans that he had grown. He originally got the seeds from my great-grandfather, and has been growing them ever since. He was calling because his basement was repainted last fall, and in the muddle of re-painting, his collection of…
Toadstools And Fairy Rings 