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10 Weeks of Vegetable Gardening: Week 9
Each Friday I am posting a weekly guide for prepping your home vegetable garden. In Raleigh, the last killing frost date is April 11 (on average, give or take a week), so my first weekend for planting (summer crops) outdoors is April 9. If you just couldn’t resist planting some of your sprouts before the last frost date, you might be a little nervous about the frost warnings for this weekend. I couldn’t help planting a couple tomatoes and squash…
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Waiting
These final weeks before planting the summer squash and peppers seem to drag on forever to me. I just can’t wait for the garden boxes to be exploding with green and I find myself walking outside with a stash of seed packets to stick a couple beans in the ground just to see if they will sprout. They don’t, the ground is too cold. Then I go over to the hot box and take a look at my sprouts and…
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10 Weeks of Vegetable Gardening: Week 8
Each Friday I am posting a weekly guide for prepping your home vegetable garden. In Raleigh, the last killing frost date is April 11 (on average, give or take a week), so my first weekend for planting (summer crops) outdoors is April 9 Have you given thought to what you will be going your tomatoes and bean vines on yet? This is a great time to look back over your layout plans (or to start thinking through them) and determine…
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Discovery: Taking Flight
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Discovery: Droplets
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When Your Child Stomps Your Onion Patch
The other afternoon I was shoveling mulch, and the Man-child was playing with the hose and his green bucket. I had specifically asked him not to play with the water because it was cold outside. He ignored me and got water all over his pants’ leg, at which point he began screaming for a towel. I told him “not right now” (I was in the middle of something) and explained that was exactly why I had asked him not to…