About to pop…

A mass of potential! I really kinda love the point right before bloom. Think about it. The calm before the storm. Thank you for looking. Hope you enjoyed.

How do I know when my veg is ready?

This is my first year planting veg (from seed and from starters) in an outdoors garden…I’ve been primarily an indoors tropical/succulent person, never gardening for food. So please help me out with a rather silly question: How do I know when my below-ground veggies are ready? I have radishes, fennel, carrots, bunched onions, and I’m [...]

my excellent greenhouses and my excellent girlfriend

Today I had plans for working on Lottie (no that’s not my girlfriend, it’s my allotment) but my body didn’t agree. So off went girlfriend to strim Lottie’s paths while I potted up some aubergines and sweet peppers for the greenhouses. And I sowed some butternut squash seeds. Most of this year’s cucurbits are doing [...]

Pics and Commentary

As things warm up and start looking lively around here, I borrowed a digital camera and took pictures of some of the things that are doing well around here. First off, the first forget-me-not of spring: I have no idea why that picture came out with slightly odd colours, but it did. A couple of [...]

Tulip

Since today weather is dreary where I am (Minnesota) but we had such a lovely April….I thought I’d share this photo from a week or so ago… New tulips in my flower bed this year! Btw, I haven’t posted often but I hope to change that! This community is wonderful, has great pictures and spirit [...]

Watering/irrigation

When I was little I remember my grandfather always had a vegetable garden, and once when I was walking through it with him I noticed that he had several plastic jugs, like old vinegar and plastic quart sized milk jugs buried up to the neck every few feet apart in the garden. When I asked [...]

Get outta mah lettuce! >:(

Good morning! I’ve been noticing holes in my lettuce lately, the holes are getting worse and this morning I saw little black dots in them – EGGS! I still can’t find what it could be, but since we have a ton of moths and I’m always finding catterpillars all over the place I’m just assuming [...]

After Mint

A month or so ago, you all gave me great guidance on my mint patch. I have now cleared most of it – continually going back in and picking out more pieces of root as they start to sprout and become identifiable (you were not kidding about the runners – sheesh!) I went ahead and [...]

Question about Hilling potatoes

The potatoes one week ago after hilling The allotment has come a long away in a month! This is my first year of growing potatoes in the ground and they have gone wild. I put them in the ground a month ago (they’re Yukon Gold and this is day 28) in trenches with about 4 [...]

Live Music!

The last of the irises planted last year has finally bloomed. Live Music Wider shot of the bed where Live Music makes its home. The other two-tone is Gay Parasol. No clue on the name of the peach one. A neighbor gave it to me last year. Here Comes the Night is still putting on [...]