I’ve heard it said that it can take a good 3 or 4 years to really get new garden soil to where it needs to be for the most productive gardening. This year was a glimpse of that. While I didn’t have a great year, production wise, I got at least a taste of almost [...]
Filed under: Tomatoes, Wisconsin Gardening on November 16th, 2012 | Comments Off
*Hangs head in shame* Overdue, because freezing overnight temperatures have pretty much brought gardening season to an end, and this sad garden journal has really been neglected. I guess that means I’ve been too busy to sit down with my notes, but that’s not 100% the truth. Anyway, I have some thoughts and pictures to [...]
Filed under: Wisconsin Gardening on October 27th, 2012 | Comments Off
What a beautiful garden! Every time it rains, the garden shoots up like gangbusters. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been doing that much, and watering has had to suffice. I’m really enjoying my garden this year, and I’m already planning how to deal with the abundance that will be rolling in soon! Let’s take a tour! This [...]
Filed under: Square Foot Gardening, Tomatoes, Wisconsin Gardening on June 28th, 2012 | Comments Off
It’s been a crazy spring here, and I must get better about updating here. After all, this is my garden journal, and keeping notes in my head is NOT the ideal way to remember year after year. Warning: This WILL be a picture-heavy and long post. I hope you don’t mind. We had our early [...]
Filed under: Wisconsin Gardening on June 11th, 2012 | Comments Off
My dwarf tomato is doing beautifully. It’s really happy in my window, even though we’ve had more grey and gloomy days than sunny days. I really like the pot it’s in too- bottom watering is great! My ghost peppers have finally sprung forth. I was so excited when I saw a sprout finally start poking [...]
Filed under: Wisconsin Gardening on January 28th, 2012 | Comments Off
January. Synonymous with cold, snow, frigid temperatures, and dark days. And yet there are the little things that brighten our days and get us through this long month as we wait for seed-starting season. Take this tomato plant, for example. A gift from the Minnesota gardeners, this is a dwarf tomato which seems very happy [...]
Filed under: Seed Starting, Tomatoes, Wisconsin Gardening on January 4th, 2012 | Comments Off
Planting in October? You bet! A few weeks ago Andy finished assembling a small raised bed for my garlic. I think that ideally, I should have planted the garlic three weeks ago, but I don’t think the bed was ready at that time, and I also really haven’t had two seconds to myself to do [...]
Filed under: Wisconsin Gardening on October 18th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This is my favorite time of year- and for the first time, I have a bumper crop of heirloom hot peppers! But first, a few other pictures. This is my little tomato plant that could. It had been completely snapped off by rabbits- and I mean completely. The stem was snapped at the soil line- [...]
Filed under: Wisconsin Gardening on August 24th, 2011 | Comments Off
I’m about due for another update! We’ve been enjoying bits of this and bits of that out of the garden. We’ve had salad a few times, plenty of lettuce on sandwiches, and we’ve all had at least one of the Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes. I just spent the last few hours weeding and tending to [...]
Filed under: Wisconsin Gardening on August 3rd, 2011 | Comments Off
I took my camera out to the garden today to snap a few pictures. We’re in a happy place with the garden- I feel so much better now with the fences up around them. Every day I would go out and dread finding something else missing or decimated- now, I know the critters are not [...]
Filed under: Square Foot Gardening, Wisconsin Gardening on July 16th, 2011 | Comments Off