Here’s brother-in-law Tom breaking ground for a new garden bed on our farm. Tom had me scythe the grass in an area that had been gardened by the previous owner of the property. He used plastic “push posts,” normally intended for temporary livestock fencing, to mark the corners of a bed 12 feet long and […]
Tags:planting
I was late starting my peppers, eggplants and tomatoes this year. But they’ve been coming along fine in their tiny cells, soaking up sun lately in an improvised hoop house in the front yard. Yesterday I got up at the crack of dawn to move them into their permanent home. I always have more than […]
I spent the better part of the weekened paying back for all that good compost we laid on the vegetable beds in the spring. The cosmos were seven feet tall. The zinnia were so big they had simply collapsed and were splayed all over the ground. The “mammoth” variety sunflowers had grown into sequoias, towing over […]
Tags:compost·fall·germination·greens·planting
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