Category: Garden

So… last summer, we had zero tomatoes from our garden. It was half heartbreaking, half infuriating to watch the neighborhood squirrels pluck each green tomato and take a few bites only to leave the rest discarded on our back deck for all to see. We resolved to build a cage around the plants this year, … Continue reading “Enter the Tomato”

We have massive amounts of swiss chard currently thriving in our garden. It blows my mind how this crop can produce so much! We harvest some of it daily (for juicing), give it away in large clumps to our vegetarian neighbors, and eat bunches like this every week. And still it grows. In 110-degree heat … Continue reading “Yummy Stuff: Swiss Chard Gratin”

So, this may not be too exciting to many of you, but last week I realized we had a huge pile of compost that was finally ready for the vegetable garden. We have two piles going at once, and really could have three or four if I weren’t lazy about it. But I like to … Continue reading “Adding Compost to the Garden”

Happy June 1st! I took these pictures of our garden earlier this week, so they are still technically “May Garden!” I am amazed by how much everything has grown- particularly the chard and the raspberries. Oh, and the broccoli! I’m not sure it we will do broccoli again next year because it takes up so … Continue reading “May Garden”

… was a big colander of swiss chard! In other news, Emil has been waking up every hour and a half to two hours at night, then kneeling upright in his crib screaming until I come lay him down or nurse him. Disaster. As in, I am a disaster. The good news is, after 25,443,902 … Continue reading “First Garden Harvest”