Yesterday we went out and picked up a straw bale for the porch garden. At the farm supply store the fellow brought the bale around on a fork lift and immediately headed towards the SUV belonging to another customer. We pointed out that the VW New (Biodiesel) Beetle was ours and his eyes grew very […]
Category Archives: Gardening
New Plants
The porch garden is busy growing. We had a couple colder mornings recently but mostly the weather has been good including days up over 70 degrees. The garlic and kale has been growing well. [thumb:528:l][newline] The potatoes are coming up. Right now only the Red Norland potatoes are actually up but the peanut fingerlings are […]
The Potatoes Strike Back!
After our mistake in identifying potatoes (don’t laugh) the potatoes are actually coming up now. So far only a couple varieties are up or the dirt is clearly lifting as they push up through but I’d expect the others won’t be far behind. We’ve had a few cold nights which probably slowed things a bit. […]
One potato, two potatoes, No potatoes
Well… what we thought were potatoes coming up weren’t potatoes at all. I still think they’ll be up soon but the seedlings we saw actually turned out to be maple trees. Those whirly seeds end up all over the place. I had tried picking them out of the containers but some obviously made it into […]
An Inconvenient Truth
As surprising as it is we didn’t watch this movie until last night. I just placed a hold request for the book at the library. I thought the movie was well done. It didn’t change my opinion at all, since I already accepted the facts of global warming. It did serve as a good reminder […]
Plants
Marigolds are coming up. So is one of the peanut fingerling potatoes. Our kale and broccoli tried to go to seed already but I cut them back. Hopefully the broccoli will produce more heads. It’s been pretty rainy lately. Today it hasn’t been raining and there have been a few sun breaks. Right now there […]
