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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
We got another 1.25 inches of rain last night and this morning. The garden isn’t quite floating away yet, but I’m not going to complain. The grapevines are budding and blooming. Of course, they waited until now so that there was a better chance of black rot infection! There’s not…
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Continue reading →: Types of Peas and When to Harvest Peas
We got another 3/4″ of rain last night! We are definitely making progress in the rainfall category, and I think the plants are more or less enjoying it as well. The sugar snap peas in the Family of 4 Garden are blooming and setting on peas, so it seems like…
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Continue reading →: Video Wednesday
We got a whopping 1/2″ of rain last night! Maybe we’ll get a little bit more today and tomorrow. At this point, even 3 inches would be fine, because it would replenish some of the soil moisture reserves deep down in the ground. Then it can go back to drying…
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Continue reading →: A Little Harvesting and Hoping for Rain
Today was a pretty calm work day, compared to last week. It always seems to work that way – one week is super busy with planting, and then the next week there isn’t much to do. There was even less to do today, since the weather got cold and things…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
Despite lots of ominous clouds, we hardly got any rain this week. Maybe there’s still some coming, but I doubt it. I’ll believe it when I see it. The garden is looking great, despite the dry weather. This is just one of the bags of lettuce that we harvested from…