Tag: Vegetables

 Potatoes can be planted anytime from early spring, until mid-spring, and since the first day of summer is still three weeks away, it’s just…

PROPER SOIL PREP IS AS IMPORTANT AS CHOOSING SMALL, HEALTHY SEEDLINGS. It can be a simple task, or and elaborate one, either way many…

SOWING OLD-FASHIONED ROOT VEGETABLES ON THIS COLD AND BLUSTERY DAY. Often referred to as luxury vegetables, the chicons of Belgian endive, and the long…

Early pickling cukes are coming in, and I’ve been able to put up some quarts of pickles. Using my mom’s  old recipe for dill…

I have been surprised at how quickly some crops seem to mature in certain years. Last year, I barely had time to plant seeds…

You may be noticing that tomatoes are doing poorly this year. We may have to worry about the H1N1 Swine Flu, but Tomatoes are…

The Cala Lilies we’re moved to the fish pond last weekend, This heavy pot is large, as is this cultivar. If kept wet, it…

A Severe Thunderstorm Approaches I can’t remember a time when we have had so many Thundershowers, with storms arriving most every evening, at night,…