Archive for the ‘ Garden ’ Category

The Garden To Come E & I are committed. Remember last year’s beginning to the garden adventure? It looked something like this (before my co-worker contributed additional plants to the fun and we converted the entire grass strip to raised garden beds)? Well, brother and his boss showed up this weekend to get rid of [ READ MORE ]

I take back *everything* I ever said about the winter garden Tonight, E became an official winter garden supporter, when he stated the phrase above. Until now, he’s been conflicted. It’s nice to have a garden year round, and it’s a fun hobby, plus, it keeps me less stressed, and it provides us with some [ READ MORE ]

Garden Lebanese CousCous Our 6 arugula plants had generated an impressive amount of regrowth after the harvest for halloween dinner party salads. So, last night, I trimmed again: The salad section of the garden looked much neater after their trimming (the arugula is to the left of the spinach and to the right of the [ READ MORE ]

Winter Garden Update Well, it’s been 7 weeks since we built the winter garden boxes and planted the first transplants and seeds. What have we learned? 1. Swiss Chard grows quickly, and is tasty or bitter depending on your perspective. If it gets an aphid infection that you don’t treat soon enough, the leaves will [ READ MORE ]

The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly The Good: Passing the blowtorch and discovering all the different ways you can brulée a crème for a friend’s birthday dessert (some were brown sugar, some were white). In addition to the burnt cream and brownies from F, we feasted on fresh mixed greens for 6 trimmed from [ READ MORE ]

Snippits HOUSING: Monday (you know the day the S&P lost almost 9%) we made an offer on a house. They countered the next day, and we found out that a house we really liked sold for way less than it was listed and we were very disappointed that we hadn’t been the ones to successfully [ READ MORE ]

Winter Garden The end of the summer garden is upon us. Yellow pear tomato and the crook neck squash have died. The remaining plants look healthy enough, but there just isn’t as much fruit as there used to be. We are inspired by our success in the okra-from-seeds experiment (just look at how tall the [ READ MORE ]

Summer Girl Summer has always been my favorite season. I love the sun. The late bedtimes. The feeling that it’s always almost time to relax and have a barbeque. But, I must say, tomatoes have become one of my favorite things about summer: All but the three huge professional-looking heirlooms came from our garden. I [ READ MORE ]

First Harvest E says the word “Harvest” sounds like “genocide” to our plants. He’s probably right. Regardless, I don’t feel the tiniest twinge of guilt despite eating about 10 cherry tomatoes and eagerly awaiting the final ripening of Mr. Stripey’s firstborn: As of last week, the garden as a whole looked like this: Which is [ READ MORE ]

Surrogate Children I took a break from work this afternoon to go speak with our across-the-street neighbor because she will be babysitting for us while we are on vacation. Okay, so really, she’ll actually just be watering the plants. But I don’t think I’ve ever gone out of my way to line up care like [ READ MORE ]