Yup! A November garden update, isn't that crazy?! We are down to one producing garden box instead of two. A few of the winter hardy vegetables I planted in one of the garden boxes are still growing and happy even in this mid-November! I worked a little today to clear out the old cherry tomato plants and was pleased ...

Garden update - December 1.12.09: Planted out seedlings end of Nov, but heatwave fried most of the seedlings. Zinnia, green zebra, black russian and a marigold survived. Carrots, one type of rocket, and evergreen shallots survived due to hessian shadecloth. Bought a roma tomato seedling, lemon balm and 3 strawberry plants, planted out Nov 29. Strawberries are temptation, sweetie, pinkie ...

... and fruit (although I don't know whether it will fruit this far south). I rang the garden centre, they apologised but assured me it will do well in the position I am putting it ... or plant it. I've also got to do something with the plants we had to dig out of the back garden. I'm trying to work out whether they would be ok out the front, or whether there is too much sun. I no longer have ...

... may start to dig a large 5 x 20 foot garden bed for next year's spring garden. If ... having a clear plan makes it much easier for me to organize and keep up with the garden tasks. I'm sure as my experience and skills grow I will be ... a place to start. I've also been playing around a bit with the online garden planning software at Plangarden (which I heard about over at MamaStories). I have ...

... latest picture update on our veggie garden. Look at how everything is growing! Yay! Jared and Paul also planted some pumpkin ... leftover seeds from our Halloween carved pumpkins) into the garden (mixed in with the basil). Well...they germinated and are growing too! Although, we might need to transplant ... pumpkins take up a lot of garden space. Most recent picture, just taken a few minutes ago - 11/12/09 ...

... fact that I still have things growing. Not that I'm disappointed by how my fall garden has turned out this year, I'm just feeling a bit ambivalent about it all. ... much needed time off from work this upcoming week. Maybe all I need is a full day in the garden (which I haven't been able to do in ages) to get me out of my doldrums. I still have to dig the remaining half of my garden for ...

... The CSA I joined will begin sharing the harvest on the 21st of the month. Also, our own garden is still giving us some things, but recently the zucchinis and crook-neck squashes have been dying ... I get dramatic in my mind when things like this happen. I told Paul that with every garden failure I think, "What if I had to survive??? I don't think I could do it!" My much more logical ...

Square Foot Garden bed... Water Chestnuts in their barrel... For the last couple of days we have had terribly hot weather. The breeze that we ... here, as we are on a hill, was not too bad but still fairly warm all the same. This morning I went out to have a look at how the garden bed was faring as I had not been out there for... oops about a week. I had not even thought about them. Not having had a ...

... lot of friends ask me how rehearsals are going. So I figured I'd give a quick update on how it's going. Rehearsals are going great. I have my lines & songs memorized and know my ... light at the end of the tunnel for me. But for now, we're bracing ourselves for December. Secret Garden opens in 11 days! And I really am very excited for the performances. And even more excited for ...

... fava beans. We’re going to be hauling 2 cubic yards of mushroom compost for the garden next week, so some back breaking labor is still in the works. And I’ll be on slug and bug ... any time I want to check on/harvest our leafy things, I am amazed by how much damn work a garden is. I love it and I hate it and I recognize that it doesn’t matter how I feel about it because I still have ...