There comes a time in every seedling’s life when it must move out of its cramped confines into bigger digs that will allow it to keep growing. Given proper heat and light, tomato seedlings grow… [Continue Reading]
IT’S FRESH VEGGIE TIME!
The poor vegetable garden has gone mostly unnoticed on the blog this summer. That’s a shame because at this time of year it really does provide an incredible abundance for us. Part of my lack… [Continue Reading]
FRIDAY FINDS: CELEBRITY GARDENS EDITION
I don’t want to talk about how it’s almost the middle of August, or how the back-to-school ads are incredibly annoying to me (not because I have any stake in anyone going to back to… [Continue Reading]
STARTING THE TASTE OF SUMMER FROM SEED
Before there was a vegetable garden in my life there were tomatoes. I first grew tomatoes in 10-inch plastic pots in the first apartment I lived in after college. The pots weren’t big enough and… [Continue Reading]
BE BRAVE, BE BRUTAL WHEN IT COMES TO LATE-SEASON TOMATO GROWING
Yikes, it seems I took an inadvertent break last week (and, um, half of this week). Sorry about that; it turns out that the “end of summer” (somebody else’s term that I refuse to use)… [Continue Reading]
CHECKING IN
Someone just pointed out to me today that Monday is the beginning of June. I can hardly believe it. I feel like I have been complaining, or at least commenting on how busy life has… [Continue Reading]
2014: A YEAR IN REVIEW
Wow, how did it get to be December 31 already? It seems like the year just flew by. Come to think if it, since I was 25, they all seem to have flown by. It… [Continue Reading]