This was the view out my front window this morning:
Brrrr, frost!
(I would have taken a picture of the garden but it was too cold to go outside).
Fortunately, I picked a whole bag of poblano peppers this weekend. I left some on the plants, too, so I’m curious to see how much cold they can tolerate.
I’m [...]
Last weekend I finally snuck away from the baby for a little while to tend to the garden. I was surprised and a little annoyed to discover that it’s no longer summer and the growing season is winding down.
All those weeds I’d been planning to pull since July? They were looking just as overgrown and [...]
Just when I thought the zucchini was dead …
I find this guy hiding under the leaves. It looks like our squash section is back in business.
Thanks to all the rain, the neglected garden is coming along better than is should. We have quite a few hot cherry peppers turning red.
The tomatoes are looking good, too. [...]
Rainy days have made it hard to work outside, so I’ve been turning to my bookshelves.
I’ve been working my way through “Teaming with Microbes” by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis. I enjoyed the descriptions of bacteria, fungi, bugs and other creatures that live in the soil. Now I’m at the part where they’re telling me [...]
I was looking for something to do outside this week with the baby and we found ourselves wandering around at R. Seawright Gardens in Carlisle, Mass. It’s a farm that grows daylilies and hostas in a big field. You walk around with a price list and pick out the flowers you like and the employees [...]
My hot peppers looked a little dry yesterday so this morning I watered them.
Now they look happy.
These are the jalapenos, which are the furthest along. My cherry tomatoes are just forming and there are blossoms on the poblanos.
Considering the grocery stores are predicted to face shortages of jalapenos because of the salmonella scare in imported [...]
How exactly does that work? You just sprinkle human hair on the plants? Thanks for explaining further.Dagny
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Hi, Dagny!
Yes, I just sprinkled human hair in the garden. I aimed for the soil around the plants, rather than the plants themselves, but you know how hair is. I used the tiny clippings left over [...]
So much is going on. First, isn’t it great we’ve had so much rain this summer? My lawn is still (somewhat) green and I haven’t even thought about dragging out the sprinkler. Usually by this time of year everything is crispy and dry.
A few weeks ago I wrote about the weeds that are taking over [...]
My column this week is about this mildly creepy pest control measure that we tried in the garden: sprinkling human hair.
“A little gross, but it just might have worked”
In the past few days my damaged plants have rebounded even further.
Here’s a Swiss chard plant, looking perky:
And here are some green beans coming back:
We’re filling a [...]
My husband and his coworker were having a discussion recently about how high a fence needs to be to keep rabbits out of a vegetable garden.
His coworker thought it wouldn’t need to be very high.
My husband’s response was to send him a link to one of the many YouTube videos of a sport called competitive [...]
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