Our Tangerine Tomato Plant
A few months ago D brought home a surprise from work. Sometimes he brings home flowers, lunch leftovers, lettuce plants, and so I was wondering what on Earth would be…
Garlic Harvest 2015
Many hands make light work, and the kids did a lot of work with the garlic this year. They planted it in the fall. Helped harvest garlic scapes. Farm to…
Zucchini: Pollination in Action
It is pretty awesome to come back from a few days away from home to see lots of delicious changes in the garden. Salad greens and beets had some nice…
Let’s grow some zucchini!
We decided to mix things up in the garden this year by growing some zucchini, since we all can not get enough of the deliciousness that is squash. Sauteed, grilled,…
Garden Plan: 2015
Soon as the calendar rolls around to March I get stoked for the upcoming garden season. I know our season technically started last fall when we tilled the entire garden,…
Growing Parsnips
Each year we try to mix things up in the garden and try something new, and this year it was parsnip. We selected the parsnip because if you have ever…
Fall in the Garden
Aww come on here! Some woodland creatures have made their way into our garden, and into our beets! OF COURSE, they go for the biggest ones to date. These were…
Garlic is done curing!
We have finally arrived at the last step of growing garlic, storing the cured garlic! While the kids played in the kiddie pool I trimmed and cleaned up the garlic.…
Harvesting Garlic
Today we harvested our garlic - 40 heads to be exact, only hit one with the shovel! I went back to grab the link from when we planted the garlic…
Washing Salad Greens
Ever since we started our garden, I've been struggling to find a better way to wash all the salad greens I harvest. Sometimes I harvest way too much, or what…