The cucumbers are finally coming in. Amie was happy to harvest some, though she won’t eat them. These, maybe… Still no zucchinis or squashes in sight, just like last year. Of the dry beans, Jacob’s Cattle is the first one ready for picking. I love the sounds of the hard beans rattling in their dry …
Category Archives: garden structures
Herb Spiral
Our herb spiral was a long time in the making. It just kept getting shoved down the list of things to do. But the herb seedlings were languishing in their pots, so I put my foot down and we did it in two days. We decided to build the wall with bricks from top to …
(Mostly) All in Pictures Today
Unwanted things: (1) (2) Things hung to dry: (3) Things newly trellised: (4) (5) Flowering things: (6) (7) (8) Things bursting: (9) (10) Take the quiz: (1) oak seedling (2) caterpillar on cherry tree (3) kale seed pods (4) favas (5) tomatoes in hoop house (6) can’t remember, sowed it under the bird feeder, bachelor’s …
Rain
The rain came, in a thunderstorm at night. It has cooled everything down a fair bit and saves me from having to water the garden this morning, for which I am thankful. But it barely half filled four of the five (food-grade) barrels (the second barrel in the line up on our most capacious downspout …
Water
It’s 10:30 am and I just came in from an hour of watering the garden. And from the heat. It’s 87 F (30.5 C) and the sun’s a scorcher. Most plants are holding up well, except for the brassicas. The kale especially is doing some spectacular wilting. The beans are coming up nicely, in more-or-less …
Growings On
Again, mostly pictures. Too tired to write a lot of words. Gooseberries and currants growing all along the back fence Soon to be cleared winter beds, garlic and rhubarb in back Raspberry bed – free transplants Cherry tree in stone circle – currently with wild irises, soon to be permaculture guild Slightly grumpy child (in …
A Good Day Building the Garden
3 new beds (4×8, 4×4, 4×4) to be planted tomorrow Amie’s castle
$600 Movable Hoop House: Details, Pictures and Cost Analysis
Background Inspired by Eliot Coleman’s Winter Harvest, we built our first hoop house in December 2009. We got it in place right in time for the first winter storm. It was made of pvc pipes and 6 mil landscape plastic. The only “specialized” thing about it was the clamps we used to clip the plastic …
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Frost!
Woah, I can’t believe it. After days of 70-80 F weather, the temperature is plummeting, down down down, to 31 F. Tomorrow will be blustery and chilly, and that night will again see temps of 31 F. So every plant that could be moved was moved out of the garden and the screened-in porch, into …
Here’s a Funny One – Hoop House Adventures
Excerpt from chat between DH (at office) and myself (at home): me: It’s soooooo windy I fear the hoop house will fly off. DH: It won’t. me: Really? DH: Yeah. Really. me: Check your email. I had just sent him this: Yup, that’s our hoop house, SPLAT. Amie and I were outside for a while …
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