Well, the 2008 garden has been put to bed! We hadn’t done much with it in about a month or so. Tough to say how much we got out of the garden this year. I’m tempted to say that we bit off more than we could chew this year; A. & I over-estimated how much […]
Well, the garden is winding down. Aside from one or two cherry tomato plants that are holding on for dear life, about the only thing left to harvest is the butternut squash. And they’re not quite done yet. Just about all the carrots and everything else have finished their respective runs. It was a good […]
Haven’t had much to say about our garden so far this year because… Well, because The Boy’s arrival has pulled us every which way. In many ways, it feels as if we are slacking on the garden. But perhaps that is only slacking when we compare it to last year. Thus far, the growing season […]
Second round of garden plantings today. Put the butternut and acorn squash in the ground; ditto to the herbs1 and marigolds. Finished twining up the pea teepees, as well. Italian parsley, Greek oregano, Thai basil, and an apparently non-ethnic coriander/cilantro. [↩]
As of last weekend (May 10): beets, carrots, red onions, and sugar snap peas all planted. As of yesterday (May 17): cucumber (Marketmore 76) and tomato (three Romas, a Sweet 100 Cherry, a Sungold, and a Grape) seedlings went into the ground. What’s left? Herbs and squash (acorn and butternut) and sorting out one last […]
Two-thirds of the beds are built; and the beets, carrots, onions, and peas are planted. Garden on.
Mentioned in passing the other day, Simile Timeline is a neat little API for building rich timeline visualizations with annotations. Though the documentation is a bit thin at the moment, the core code is not too difficult to figure out1 and if you start with a straightforward example (like this one) then you can get […]
Our first year of veggie gardening comes to a close. And what a year it was! Some thoughts and meditations on our crops, pests, techniques, etc….
garden #2291: supersweet 100s garden #2563: tomato blossoms garden #3136: another cherry tomato garden #3259: like traffic lights And with these Supersweet 100 cherry tomatoes, tonight we make salsa.