Garden

Adding compost to Sandy OR Clay soils improves soils structure for both but for different reasons.

A quick vegetable garden update from late May.

It’s early, but the garden is starting to grow. Take a look at some early spring progress.

Compost is key to organic gardening, but what’s really happening in the pile?

Replacing two old beds and adding two new ones has left me aching but satisfied.

Should it bother me that I didn’t nurture the plants from seed to harvest? Am I less of a gardener because I bought a plant start?

Pssst…..  Hey Kid…. kid! Yeah you….. C’mere…. Look here,  I’ve got some radish seeds….

Seems there are some folks that lament children don’t eat their vegetables, and are more interested in video games, …
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For now the garden is under snow. Difficult to believe that a year ago at this time I was posting about crocuses. Clearly this year we’re going to have to …
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Vegetable gardening is full of variables. Temperature, moisture, frost free days, insect /pests, maintenance discipline and luck all play roles. I’m recapping 2012 here mainly as a record to myself. …
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