It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

"That kale was delicious!" is what was said in my house recently. Well, not in the house exactly. Near the house. And not by...

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 ...

My veggie garden has been sadly neglected for two years (or more?) now. Severely neglected. Completely ignored actually. So it was a big sur...

Fall is a great time to plant trees, shrubs, and perennials as I'm sure you've heard, but my trip to Greenscape Gardens this past w...

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 ya...

I'm talking about my veggie beds, where I always let crops linger too long. I really should remove things as soon as I'm finished ha...

I removed the covers from my veggie beds the other day, as I wanted any plants inside them to enjoy the two days of 70ºF weather that was c...

We've had one really cold night in St. Louis so far, when it dipped down to 16ºF (-9ºC) ten days ago. It didn't stay that cold of co...

It's time for the kale to finally go. I overwintered this under hoops and plastic this year, and it rewarded me with so many fantastic e...

I noticed this past weekend that although there is still a lot of work to do around the garden, and lots of plants are just barely starting ...

Of the edible plants that I overwintered this year, kale is king... ...and that's a very good thing.

If you ask me what my weakest area in the garden is, where I show the least amount of skill, I'd have to say that's the veggie garde...

I've been planning on working on my fall veggie garden for a few weeks now. I started some plants in trays a month or more ago, and they...

Yesterday morning I attended the first informal gathering at Schlafly Gardenworks in St. Louis. I posted about this garden before: it's...

Barbara and Christine over at The Gardening Blog have started a garden meme showing what edibles have been harvested in the last month: Gar...

The day after Christmas, and there is one plant in the miserable failure that was my vegetable garden this year that is still going strong: ...

My vegetable bed is the only fenced-off part of my yard. It's really a necessity because of the rabbits, woodchucks, deer, and other cri...