I occasionally make a salad for my lunch or dinner. One of the annoying facts about this is that I really don't use salad greens for anything else, and I don't make salads often enough to use them all up before they go bad. So why have them at all ( Read more... )

Last weekend I pulled up a couple of bulbs of garlic from the garden. You're supposed to hang them up to dry for a few weeks before using them, or even cutting off the stems and roots. It also turns out that garlic (and onions) are not healthy for cats, so I didn't want to hang up the garlic anywhere the cats could get to it ( Read more... )

Sunday, we spent much time preparing and planting the veggie garden. And so what happens last night: a frost! And what will probably happen tonight? Another frost ( Read more... )

So today was a productive day for the back yard...

Had madandrew, nyssa73, heatherinktum and ike2100 over today. Also M&A, , with kid D dropped by for a little while to hang out. But the principal activity for the day was planting the veggie garden for this year The weather forecast claimed rain, but I had stuff started that had to go in the ground, so if there was a chance of no ( Read more... )

The dandelions are winning.

threatening productivity ( Read more... )

A few months ago, nyssa73, heatherinktum and I started work on a vegetable garden with help from polymorphism, madandrew and ike2100. There still remains a lot of work to do. In fact, there is a quite a large chunk that we haven't even dug up yet, though I've been picking at it when weather and time permit. But before winter set in we did manage to plant about 40 cloves of garlic: this being ( Read more... )