The Final Fall Plantings
Your summer crops are coming out of the garden now, and finally there is space available to put in some winter vegetables. But alas, the nursery shelves are bare and the days are getting too short and...
View ArticleFall Tasks: Plant Alliums, Ditch Disease, Sheet-mulch a New Bed
Got a plan for this weekend? It could be one of our last warm and dry spells, so I plan to get some fall work done in my vegetable garden. Discard Debris First task is to clean up from all the...
View ArticleShielding Plants From Frost
I’m a day late with this post — did your garden get frosted over last night? Here on Phinney Ridge in Seattle, I experienced a light frost: slight pockets of it on the grass, and my cold frame (and all...
View ArticleThankful for garden bounty
Under a warming sun as the fog cleared this afternoon, I picked a salad for our Thanksgiving dinner. Here’s what we had. Here’s the only thing not picked fresh today: Happy Thanksgiving!
View ArticleFrost protection
Frosty nights are here, followed by gloriously brilliant mornings. Here’s the frost melting off my new bell cloche, which is in turn covering a fine-looking Marshall lettuce. By the way, I found this...
View ArticleThe veggies have a snow day
Snow hit my garden this morning, so I took a few pictures before the rain melts it all away.
View ArticleAren’t Vegetables Amazing?
We had an unexpected snow here on Sunday, which was pretty significant. Late in the season for us, and it was more than just a dusting. So here’s what happened with my winter veggies. I know I talk a...
View ArticlePerfect Fall Planting Weather
Your favorite nursery might have a large seed rack with […]
View ArticleProject: Insulating a Worm Bin
I often joke that the worms are my only pets, and to a […]
View ArticlePest Hunting: A Brassica Task
My many fall and winter Brassicas are sizing up nicely, but the ones not tented with floating row cover are showing a little chewing and some curling leaves. The culprits are cabbage butterfly larvae,...
View ArticleNovember Tasks: Slow Gardening
Grab that sliver of sunlight between showers and get out into the garden. Fleece up and tidy the shed on a rainy day. Scratch out some thoughts on next year, with notes on this year’s successes and...
View ArticleEarly Winter in My Outdoor Refrigerator
A good rule of thumb for winter edibles is to have your vegetables large enough for harvest by mid-December, which I achieved with some of my plantings. Carrots, beets and kohlrabi are ready anytime....
View ArticleMy Edible Seattle Column Debuts
It’s all about edibles in my garden. And in my writing. And on this site. So I was delighted to be offered the task of writing a new column for Edible Seattle called (you probably guessed it) The...
View ArticlePlunge In Pungent Alliums
To paraphrase an old saying: Give a person garlic and they can ward off vampires once; teach a person how to grow garlic, and they will be free of vampires for a lifetime. Have you planted your garlic...
View ArticleGiving Thanks, 2016
This holiday weekend, the garden is soggy from steady rains. But the day before Thanksgiving yielded a warm, dry spell that got me out amongst the vegetable beds to harvest a bounty for our holiday...
View ArticleSnow Blankets My Winter Garden
I’m a bit late in posting these images, but here are some photos of the snow day we had in Seattle last Thursday, Dec. 8. Up here on Phinney Ridge (about 300 feet above sea level) we got perhaps two...
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