Lettuce in Winter: Part 2 »
We spaded the ground in our unheated greenhouse, removing weeds and debris. To spade, push your shovel in the ground and lift a shovel full of dirt out of the ground. Turn your whole shovel over and let the dirt fall back into the hole you just made. The point of doing this is to [Read More...]
Thoughts After the Philadelphia Flower Show: A Fractured Community? »
Early last month, a few of us from Greenhouse Megastore made the trek over to Pennsylvania for the Philadelphia Flower Show. Truthfully, I had no idea what to expect, although I have been entrenched in gardening since childhood. And by “entrenched” I mean: Mom: Jordan, you see those 4,000 weeds growing up by the [Read More...]
How a Fetus Made Me Appreciate Our Vegetable Garden »
There’s nothing that can disrupt life like a baby, with the possible exception of a third baby (crazy parents of 3+ children know what I’m talking about). Just when you think you have the whole parenting thing figured out, along comes another personality to care and nurture for that is, conveniently, nothing like any of [Read More...]
Lettuce in Winter: Part 1 »
Starting lettuce in winter was successful for us. We transplanted it into a raised bed inside our unheated greenhouse. We covered the raised bed in a low tunnel as well, we then snaked a heating cable through the bed and set out a heat lamp that turned on when it got close to the freezing [Read More...]
Garden Planning Day – 2013 »
Thomas Jefferson loved gardening. He kept detailed records, for many years, of his garden at Monticello. In fact, you can even purchase a copy of his “Garden Book“. I read it once, years ago, and felt so inspired that I started keeping my own garden book. It was fun to do, but as with so [Read More...]
Juicing for Better Health »
The new year always begins with proclamations of ways we can improve and promises we make to ourselves to achieve these resolutions. Many focus around personal health and weight loss. My family is no different. Recently, my brother watched the documentary Fat, Sick and Nearly Deadwhich demonstrates the weight loss achieved by Joe Cross through [Read More...]
Don’t take a chance on old seeds… »
Another good day ~ I went out to the hoop house, pulled all the tiny little weeds out of the planting bed, and replanted in areas where things did not sprout. That is what I get for trying to save money by using old seeds. It was not worth it. Now our plant propagation is a month [Read More...]
Save those Green Tomatoes! »
By Monday, we are supposed to have freezing temperatures here in Southern Indiana, so today I went out and picked all of the green tomatoes. Here you can see them laid out in cardboard boxes. I will cover these with a light blanket and check them every day or two. Not all of them will [Read More...]
Why Are My Tomatoes Not Ripening Completely? »
The tomatoes above are having problems fully ripening. Actually, they are never going to fully ripen. The problem is often referred to as yellow shoulder or green shoulder. But I must make note that green shoulder is not always a defect but a genetic trait of a particular variety of tomato. I [Read More...]
Make your own “Crushed Red Peppers!” »
To make this lovely spice, I used mature Jalapeno peppers – most of them had turned red. I washed them in cold water and patted them dry, cut off the stem ends, sliced them thinly and arranged them on dehydrator trays covered with the sheets that are used for fruit leather. That is important so [Read More...]