#grow-food

Hello, hivers and garden lovers! As my followers know, I grow potatoes at the local community garden. The reason why I prefer to grow potatoes there rather than in my home garden is because the soil at

Hello, hivers and garden lovers! In my previous post, I talked about shredding leaves for garden mulch. That is an on-going project right now, but there are other things that also need to get done before

Hello, hivers and garden lovers! We finally got some decent weather again after a week of cold and wet weather that I had no interest in going out into. A couple of days ago, it was cold and windy, but

Hello, hivers and garden lovers! I was going to wait to write this post until I had more pictures, but my progress on this project has been on hold for the past few days due to bad weather. It rained for

Hello, hivers and garden lovers! Last weekend, I decided to start the annual end of season cleanup in the greenhouse. The tomato plants were first on the list because they're done producing tomatoes. As

Hello, hivers and garden lovers! I finally started digging up the rows of potatoes in my garden plots at the local community garden. I planted 15 rows of potatoes last spring, each row being about 10 feet

Hello, hivers and garden lovers! It's been almost 2 months since my last garden post, I guess I'm way overdue for writing about my garden. This definitely falls into the category of "shit happens".

Hello, hivers and gardeners! This post is just a picture update of my home garden for the end of July. Everything seems to be growing pretty well right now. We've had a reasonable amount of rainy days,

Hello, hivers and gardeners! I should have written this post a couple of days ago, but things have been a bit strange here lately. I took these pictures on Sunday, and here it is Wednesday now... As most

Hello, hivers and gardeners A few days ago, I wrote a post about my community garden plots, so today, I'm going to write about the progress of my garden at home. I'm growing my tomatoes, beans, and summer

Hello, hivers and gardeners! I use the standard metal tomato cages to support my tomato plants as they grow. All of my tomato cages are the heavier wire ones, I replaced all the cheap ones over the past

Hello, hivers and gardeners! It's just about the end of June now, so I wanted to give you a little "show and tell" of my gardens at home. The plants are growing pretty well right now, although

Hello, hivers and gardeners! This is my first garden post of the summer, and I have a lot to talk about. I've written several posts about my greenhouse, and starting the tomato plants, but I haven't written

Hello, hivers and gardeners! This post is an update on my tomato plants that I've been keeping in the greenhouse. My last garden related post was 10 days ago. Since then, things have either been hectic,

Hello, hivers and gardeners! I have a refrigerator in my basement that I use for storing the potatoes and carrots during the winter. I still have a fair amount of potatoes from last year in the fridge

Hello, hivers and garden lovers! Today turned out to be a good day to do some work in the greenhouse. I have all of my tomato plants out in the greenhouse now, and even the smallest plants have been growing

Hello, hivers and garden lovers! In my first greenhouse post, I wrote about getting the tomato plants started, and transplanting a few of the paste tomato plants into the big pots in the greenhouse. The

Hello, hivers and garden lovers! I know I've showed a couple of pictures from in the greenhouse already, but this is my first post for this year specifically about the greenhouse. In my last garden post,

Hello, hivers and gardeners! For today's post, I'd like to show you a few pictures from my gardens. It's still too early in the spring in the area where I live to start planting seeds for most of the types

Hello, hivers and garden lovers! This is my second post about starting my tomato seeds. So far, my luck with the seeds hasn't been too bad. As I said in my last post, I planted 6 seeds each of Amish Paste,