7 posts categorized "Garden Variety"

Garden Variety: Winding Down: October 13, 2010
Categories: Garden Variety
Things at the farm garden have been cruising along without much intervention from us human types. The fall has been a busy time with harvest in full swing, back to school routines to adjust to, and work schedules picking up...

Garden Variety: Oats, Peas, Beans, and Barley Grow: May 26, 2010
Categories: Garden Variety
Well, not oats or barley, but peas, beans, and lots of other stuff. On our last trip up to the farm garden, we finished most of the planting. We prepared two more rows and planted most of that space with...

Garden Variety, Take Two: May 12, 2010
Categories: Garden Variety, Season: Spring
As you may remember, last year, I entered into a joint venture with my sister and my friend Mary to grow vegetables in a large plot at Sarah's vineyard, Black Ankle. (Mary has since started a website, The Abundant Backyard,...

Roasted Heirloom Tomato Sauce: August 26, 2009
Categories: Basics, Easy to Freeze, Farmers' Market Find, Garden Variety, Season: Summer, Teacher Gift, Tomato
We have struck it rich in the tomato department. All of those heirloom tomato plants that we planted in the garden at Black Ankle are producing like mad. Mary has been bringing us a large basket every week filled with...

Garden Variety: Trip to Bountiful: August 4, 2009
Categories: Garden Variety
I have been terribly neglectful in updating you on the state of our farm vegetable garden. Well, if truth be told, I have been neglectful of the garden itself, too. But fortunately, Sarah and her crew have done a good...

Garden Variety: In the Weeds: May 25, 2009
Categories: Garden Variety
It had been several weeks since we made our first trip up to our joint venture vegetable garden at Black Ankle. This time, Mary and I were able to drive up there together. As it turned out, Ed and Sarah...

Garden Variety: Getting Started: April 17, 2009
Categories: Garden Variety
This is the first post in what I hope will be a regular feature that follows our efforts to grow vegetables with a friend and my sister in the plot pictured here. I have no idea how successful we'll be,...