It's Not Work, It's Gardening!: edibles

Showing posts with label edibles. Show all posts

Showing posts with label edibles. Show all posts

Catching Up: Tomato Plants!

>> Wednesday, October 16, 2019 – edibles

It's been a few years since I've bothered to grow any edibles, even though in my opinion one of the best things about summer gardening is a homegrown tomato. The deer and woodchucks and inconvenience of the fenced veggie garden being so far away from the kitchen door just made it too much of a hassle though, so I gave up on it.

Until this year that is, when I decided that the deck would be a great place to grow tomatoes! I planted up six large pots, each holding a different variety. I was quite pleased with the results.

That kale was delicious!

>> Thursday, May 17, 2018 – deer, edibles, kale, woodchuck

"That kale was delicious!" is what was said in my house recently.

Well, not in the house exactly. Near the house. And not by people.

What a crop: kale!

>> Monday, May 7, 2018 – edibles, kale

I've really outdone myself this year in my veggie beds. As you may know, they've been in a sorry state for a couple of years, and I showed you what they looked like a couple of months ago.

Now though, my attention to detail and dedication to growing something edible (by humans) has paid off, and a bumper crop will soon be harvested!

Delicious Spring?

>> Monday, March 19, 2018 – edibles, Spring

There are tastes of Spring in the air...

...and is there a springier taste than rhubarb? (probably)

Warm weather makes it happen

>> Friday, February 23, 2018 – cleanup, edibles, weeds

The other day when the temperature reached 82ºF (28ºC) I knew I had to take advantage of it and get something done in the garden. But what? Where to start? Actually, the answer was pretty easy: the veggie garden!

These raised beds, fenced to keep the herbivores out, sat fallow and unused all of last year. I suppose "unused" is the wrong word though, since Nature used it to grow whatever it wanted to.

Amazing: life!

>> Tuesday, February 14, 2017 – edibles, experiment

I talked a bit about the trouble I have growing hellebores, but today I'm amazed at something else:

I've been able to keep rhubarb alive!

Pecans!

>> Monday, November 14, 2016 – autumn, edibles, travel

Last weekend I visited the small pecan farm that supplies our pecans for the bakery. McGraw Hilltop Pecan Farm is located in St. Charles county, and they grow some of the most delicious pecans that we've ever tasted!

Here's what I saw on this beautiful autumn day, as the nuts went from tree...

Rhubarb and other reasons

>> Tuesday, May 17, 2016 – edibles

I've been a bit lax in my posting lately, sometimes skipping a day, others just putting the minimum amount of effort into it. I thought I'd explain the reason for this to you today...

...it's rhubarb! Well, not just rhubarb, but apples, strawberries, and other wonderful from-the-garden stuffs.

Thankful and thinking of food

>> Friday, November 27, 2015 – edibles

In the US we had our Thanksgiving Day holiday yesterday. This for most of us means making lists of things to be thankful for, a gathering of family and/or friends, and big meals.

It's that last part that got me thinking. With so many millions in this country not getting enough to eat, and with food waste such a significant problem, was there something I could do to help?

A good bit of work

>> Wednesday, October 7, 2015 – cleanup, edibles

Do you want to see something shocking? I suppose it doesn't really matter if you do or not, as you've probably already seen it -- you saw the image before you started reading:

That's a photo of my veggie beds. What, you don't see any tomatoes, kale, lettuce, or anything else that appears to be even remotely edible? You won't, because not only have these beds been fallow for the summer, but there's a curtain of weeds growing in front of them. Time to fix that!

Growing food: exercise in optimism

>> Tuesday, June 9, 2015 – caterpillar, damage, edibles, kale

I have a relatively small garden for edibles, needing to fence it to keep out the trio of volunteer pruners that are daily visitors to my yard: deer, rabbits, and woodchucks.

These animals seem to love a challenge, and it's not uncommon for one or more of them to overcome my defenses and help themselves to our food -- I saw this earlier in the year when my lovely beets were devoured in one sitting by a less-lazy deer, or maybe it was a woodchuck.

Greenscape Gardens, part 2

>> Wednesday, April 29, 2015 – edibles, foliage, herbs

Yesterday I started showing you my current favorite nursery: Greenscape Gardens. I left off at the extensive native plant area at the back of the greenhouses.

Today I start where I left off, entering the greenhouse from the back with the native plants behind me.

Wiethop Greenhouses visit part 1

>> Friday, April 10, 2015 – blooms, edibles, foliage, herbs, seedlings

I'm determined to not only visit more area nurseries this year than I have in the past, but to share the visits with you as well -- something I've not really done over the years. Remember the other day when I gave you a little view of Sherwood's Forest Nursery and my stone supplier Kirkwood Material Supply that was right on the other side of the fence? Sharing the other (north) fence with Sherwood's is Wiethop Greenhouses.

Wiethop is unique in this area of St. Louis as they're 1) open seasonally only, from early April to mid-June, then again September through mid-October 2) a grower, not just a seller of plants. Both of these things combine to make a trip to Wiethop irresistible to me each Spring. (I've never actually been there in Autumn).

Early Spring Nursery Visit: Sherwood's Forest

>> Tuesday, March 31, 2015 – blooms, edibles, foliage, Spring

I made a promise to myself to not only visit more local nurseries this year, but to post about the visits too. I was inspired to do this by Peter, The Outlaw Gardener, who seemingly visits at least one garden center every day of the year in the nursery-dense Pacific Northwest.

It's still quite early in the season here in St. Louis so the nurseries are only half-stocked or not open yet -- we have one seasonal nursery/grower that will be opening soon -- but I decided to stop in and take a look at Sherwood's Forest on my way home last Saturday.

Veggie garden update

>> Thursday, May 1, 2014 – edibles, vegetables

This is my favorite time of year in the veggie garden! Cool temperatures mixed with warm (or hot) days, plenty of rain (hold the hail please!) and not too many insects yet make the edibles such a pleasure to tend.

My last look at these beds was almost exactly a month ago, when I planted many of the seedlings. What a difference a month makes!

Seedlings set free

>> Tuesday, April 1, 2014 – edibles, seedlings

With all of the days this week until Friday forecast to be mild, I took a chance on my edible seedlings yesterday. Before I get into that though, let's take a look at them.

If you're like me you can't resist checking on your seedlings several times each day. I'm not sure what I expect to see, but I feel compelled to investigate, scrutinize.

Finally some green: garlic

>> Wednesday, March 26, 2014 – discovery, edibles, Spring

I have an alternate title for today's short post: "garlic is easy!" In the end though I went with the "green" title, as there is so much brown around that any hint of the verdant must be celebrated.

So a quick look at my garlic, which although planted in late autumn has only recently started growing.

Regrowing lettuce, for some reason

>> Wednesday, January 22, 2014 – cuttings, edibles, propagation

I saw an article recently that was one of those "10 things..." type of lists that are so popular these days, as if something isn't worth learning about until it's in a list, but I digress. The article was something like "10 vegetables you can use and grow again forever", and since I already have experience with this sort of thing with my kitchen counter green onions, I eagerly read through the list.

Most of the list wasn't useful information to me (You can grow carrot greens from the discarded ends of carrot roots? Really? What would I exactly do with carrot greens?) but I did see a couple of intriguing ideas that I could easily try out.

Schlafly Gardenworks in July

>> Thursday, July 11, 2013 – edibles

As regular readers know, there's a monthly meet-up at Schlafly Gardenworks that I try to attend. The first Saturday of each month gardeners of all experience levels meet there at 9:00 to see what's changed in the last month, get tips from other gardeners, find out what's doing well, talk about chickens.

It's a fun way to spend a Saturday morning (well, certain months it is), and you'll often leave with some free plants or huge bags of soil amendments like coffee grounds or manure. Here's how things looked there last weekend.

Garlic

>> Saturday, June 29, 2013 – edibles

Apparently, it's time to harvest the garlic. I know this because my neighbor was recently digging his up.

I'm not as on top of harvest dates as I should be. Good to have reminders nearby!

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