We’re starting to get ready for the 2007 porch garden — but we still have plants from 2006! [thumb:492:l][newline] The Fall-planted garlic is doing well. Plus we still have some kale, spinach, chard, broccoli, and a lettuce plant. The greens haven’t been growing much with things being so cold but they seem to be doing […]
Category Archives: Gardening
More snow
It snowed more last night and this morning. We didn’t get much more than the last snowfall (which was already gone). Today the snow melted off again except for a few patches here and there. It was colder today, though, so the snow drifted around more. It’s supposed to be colder and snow more tonight, […]
New Arrival
Fall is definitely here. We’ve had blustery rainy days and all the maples have changed colours and are dropping their leaves. Though the sky has been overcast our porch seems brighter since Ryan has cleaned up most of the summer planters. Those huge tomato plants blocked a lot of the light. Our summer garden isn’t […]
Garlic shoots
The garlic has sent up shoots. From what I’ve read the growth will slow down as the weather gets colder and they should survive fine through the winter. In fact they need the cold snap to develop good bulbs. It’ll be interesting to see how it goes.
Fall/Winter Prep
The tomato plants are gone. I harvested another big bowl of tomatoes today and then took out the plant (which was looking pretty sad). [thumb:454:c][thumb:453:c][thumb:455:c] With the plants gone I took out the remaining cages, except for the beans. They’ll come out after the beans dry. Our flowers are still going strong. [thumb:452:c] This is […]
Transitions
I harvested a bowl full of tomatoes this afternoon. I took out the cucumber and the patio orange tomato plants. I also removed our old flowers. Didn’t spend too much time on it since I’m still recovering from a cold. Next weekend maybe I’ll put in the garlic cloves. Assuming the rest of the pink […]
