A NEW SEASON OF GROWING!
It’s the start of a new growing season and I am getting after it!! Bill and I decided it is not quite time to ‘redo’ the garden...
TIME TO EAT WHAT I HAVE GROWN!
It’s a sad day when it’s time to say good bye to the garden for 6 months:( I started the final stages of deconstructing the garden in October when...
HARVEST MANAGEMENT PART II
SALSA INGREDIENTS! The season is starting to wrap up with cooler temperatures and shorter days. No sign of frost yet this early October; so things are still growing but...
HARVEST MANAGEMENT PART I
I have been very busy!! Harvest time of year is great but a LOT OF WORK to manage all the fruits of my labor. I am very diligent about...
“Pomme D’Amour” (Love Apple)
Tomatoes are one of my favorite garden vegetable/fruit (fruit has a ripened flower ovary). There are SO many ways to eat and prepare tomatoes: BLT’s, cut up with oil...
“STINKING ROSE” & ONIONS
Garlic is sometimes called the “stinking rose” due to its strong odor from one of its components called ‘allicin’. It is native to South and Central Asia and has...
FENCING AND ANIMALS
All kinds of animals visit us on our 1.4 acre property including bears, mountain lions, bobcats, coyotes, deer, fox, rattlesnakes, rabbits, skunks and birds and mice! When we built...
PLANTING – WATERING – WEEDING
The season has finally taken off with real summer weather! I have already been harvesting asparagus, spinach, green onions (planted last fall), arugula and lettuce. The snap peas &...
Colorado Spring Garden Update
(Aerial View of Garden After Snow) I directly sowed my warm weather vegetables – cucumber, cantaloupe, black beans, edamame and zucchini on May 9th. They started poking their heads...
Spring Sowing and Reaping
Soil amendments were added last fall. We turned a half a ton of steer manure into all the boxes of soil, added nitrogen and potassium so things were...