Lent, Day 9 Sometimes you don't know which element of the weather is going to be the problem. Today it was the wind... I spent much of this past week tearing down the winter greenhouse coverings to let more of the sun back into the greenhouse for growing plants. But it isn't spring yet, much … Continue reading Wind’s Day Greenhouse Report.
Tag: gardening
Greenhouse Tomatos
The greenhouse has an abundant supply of tomato plants; I am trying to make that an abundant supply of tomatoes. Back in the spring we started this year’s experiment with tomatoes by purchasing 12 tomato plants. Ten of them are still alive with green tomatoes still turning white to orange to red in the greenhouse … Continue reading Greenhouse Tomatos
The Greenhouse
As the picture shows, we have a eclectic collections of plants in the greenhouse. While far from full, the greenhouse has a sense of crowding, as one growing plant gets close to or invades the space of another, and has to be tamed or trained to stay within its spot. I got the greenhouse two … Continue reading The Greenhouse
Taste the Rainbow
The above picture is our seasonal display at At The Rainbow. It features the produce of our garden, the squash garden in particular. Despite attacks by squash bugs, all the plants seemed rather resilient this year: attacked and bitten along one vine, the plant sent out fresh unaffected vines in two or three other places, … Continue reading Taste the Rainbow
What Season now
Moving from Upstate New York to Western Missouri has dislocated me in my seasons, after 25 years it still hasn't settled. Growing up, Labor Day meant frost any moment. each day was an extra growing day until frost. But here in Kansas City, we usually have two or three more months where things might grow. … Continue reading What Season now
(Wood)RootStock
I understand, in my bones, more and more why winter is the time of planning your planting with seed and nursery catalogues. There just isn't enough time to come up with, detail and plan the current year's garden when spring is sprinting amuck directly ahead of you. So when, sometime after Easter, I decided a … Continue reading (Wood)RootStock
A Blast of the Past #65: Corn Fields – planting
This was the year I used roundup on the back half of the yard and planted it all in hills of corn. We got a fairly decent harvest that year. At the moment I can't remember if we tried it one more year, but today I would need to make serious plans to protect it … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #65: Corn Fields – planting
A Blast of the Past #60:urban vegetable gardening
I think 2005 was one of the years I put more energy into the home garden. The inherited flower beds became definite vegetable gardens this year. The planting certainly was fun; the pictures show the energy the kids put into the process: We planted onions on one side of the house, and potatoes on … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #60:urban vegetable gardening
A Blast of the Past #27: Strawberries in Kearney
Today's look back is going to discuss gardening. Everywhere we have lived I have done some sort of gardening. With experience you are supposed to get better. Doesn't feel that way to me where gardening is concerned. I remember back in Caton, after my college days, I put quite a bit of effort into gardening, … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #27: Strawberries in Kearney
At The Rainbow 