Found: The Antique Roxubry Russet Apple
All our apple trees are done for the year. No more fruit to pick or pick up from the ground. But I was by my neighbor’s house this weekend, and I saw he…
Heirloom Rattlesnake Pole Beans work well in summer heat
I usually don’t plant pole beans, but this year I realized that pole beans are more space efficient than bush beans from a square foot gardening perspective. I planted Rattlesnake Pole Beans I…
Japanese Beetle Attractant Plant saves the garden
I was pulling weeds in the vegetable garden this weekend, and came across this weed in the basil patch. I was about to pull it when I realized it was full of Japanese…
Blueberries, learning how to grow them
I have two mature blueberry bushes in our yard, and a few years back I added some blueberry saplings I bought from a catalog. The saplings are not doing well. Then last week…
Solarize a Raised Vegetable Bed
I planted everbearing raspberries from Fedco Seeds in one of my raised beds. My thinking was that in a raised bed, the natural sprawl that raspberries do would be easier to control. I…
Cold Frame Hoop House Plans and Update
We had a really warm weekend last week, so i pulled out the cold frame hoop house that we built in the How to make a hoop house cold frame video here. I…
The ground is still frozen, time to plant Peas
The Labradors and us people all love sugar snap peas. Thankfully they are pretty easy to grow. Someone has trained the pups to eat them right off the vine. My method of planting…
I like the smell of compost.
It’s dark, stinky, and I just find it beautiful. Compost! There. I said it. I enjoy it. There’s compost buried in the veg garden. Compost in the rotating container. Compost “aging” over the winter in planter boxes. There’s a lot of compost. I like the musty, sour, earth smell of it.
Eric’s Garden Seed Choices for spring
I got my seed orders this week, and I now know I probably over-ordered. Kinda like going into Costco or BJs and buying the whole case of mayonaise. I buy seeds from Fedco…
How to inoculate logs with mushroom spore – thanks to Cooking Up A Story
On my to do list is to learn more about propogating mushrooms. I want to learn how to grow mushrooms, and here is a great video by Ashley Terry of the blog Cooking…
Tatsoi, Greens to grow in the Winter
We just shot a Gardenfork episode about gardening in winter. We shot it on Christmas Day, and I had neglected to pull out my portable cold frame – watch our how to make…
Fedco Seeds, my favorite seed supplier
OK, right now is dumping snow outside. I just helped my friend Bill switch out generators up at the camp ( where the Labs swim ).
The Chicken Tractor : a new & improved version
I ran across this today, and there has been a lot of talk on our viewer forum about raising chickens. Handcrafted Coops offers affordable, portable chicken coops for the backyard chicken farmer. All…
