Lynne and I both have special dietary requirements, and the principle part of that diet is fresh vegetables. Having been a successful gardener long before we got married, I set out to impress my wife with an endless cornucopia of garden-fresh, organic food. Soil + seed + sunlight + water = free food, right? It…
Strawberries – Wave One
While I’m away for the next two weeks, my hubby went out to harvest my strawberries, and I’m so glad he did! I hated missing strawberry season, but I am away until the middle of June so I’m missing my favorite part: bringing in the berries! I have big plans for them too! I am…
Garden 2014 Update May 23
It’s time for another garden update, folks! We’ve been busy this week putting up fences for our beans. We put them side by side because sometimes they will grow up and across and make a little tunnel and it’s neat. We put the posts up and then stretched fence across them – the same fencing…
The Garden
Meet the garden! These rows of water are doing exactly what they were designed for – keeping the roots from rotting. We had a huge storm last night and without these ditches, our 3 kinds of potatoes would drown and rot. This is is the other side where we have 8 raised boxes for strawberries,…