Here’s a little status overview of whirlwind garden happenings. Things are in and things are growing! I love this time of year.
Tomatoes
Playing Puzzle with Tomato and Pepper Seedlings
April temps and a blizzard complicates the greenhouse situation for our numerous flats of heat-loving plants.
Roasted Salsa (Canning Friendly)
One of the things that keeps me stumped in the several years since I began gardening is the fact that sometimes, two things that go so well together are not ready for harvest at the same time! My dill is long gone by the time I have nice, crisp cabbage heads, for example. I really […]
Backerboard, Balloons, Baby, Bakes
Being torn in many directions this weekend with a house project and family in town for a celebration, my Sunday called for a fast meal – eggplants saved the dinner! (Recipe later in the post.) {Backerboard} It was a big weekend for us. A weekend I have been so looking forward to for the last six […]
Your Fall garden to-do list: The Fall Garden Grind, Part I
It’s easy to feel the cooler weather that has arrived and relax your gardening self a bit. Hold off, though, don’t sit down quite yet! There’s a lot to do out there before you can kick back. The time and effort you invest in your garden now will build soil health, plus keep the weed and […]
Tomato Rainbow
The range of colors that we bring in from our tomato bed wins me over every summer. Some varieties we grow every year, and maybe it is just thanks to Minnesota’s long winter, but I experience those first ripe tomatoes like I’m seeing them for the first time. The vibrant pink, the deep red, the soft yellow, the shiny […]
