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Continue reading →: A Couple of Garden Problems
Looking over the garden this morning after the weekend, I spotted a couple of things going on that will result in replacing a couple of plants around the garden. This is the first problem I noticed. I saw it when the damage was fresh Saturday morning as well. While it…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
Welcome to our 2nd Friday PhotoEssay of the season! I don’t have much more to show you beyond what we had earlier in the week, but there are a few things. It would appear that our drainage system works. On one hand, that’s good. On the other hand, this is…
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Continue reading →: First Insect Pest of the Year
We planted on Tuesday and yesterday morning when I was out in the garden I noticed a few munched on leaves…as well as the culprit: A dastardly cucumber beetle! Rather, there were several beetles on several different plants. Normally sighting a single beetle on a plant would not trigger the…
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Continue reading →: Planting Day!
Yesterday was our big planting day in the Demo Garden. Our first planting day in the new garden! Most years we have 2 or 3 days when we do some major planting, but because of the renovation we ended up planting pretty much the entire garden at once. I will…
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Continue reading →: Installing the Drip Irrigation
Yesterday (Monday) we got the vast majority of the drip lines installed in the garden. Our supplier was out of one of the adapter pieces we needed to connect the timers in all the beds, so only the 4 largest raised beds are completely hooked up right now. The others…