I’m now hitting the end of all the cooler-weather produce, and warmer weather is (supposedly) here for good now. I’m taking the last of my spring produce and freezing it before it bolts in the warmer weather. The technique is simple — boil some water with a bit of salt in it, toss your cleaned [...]

Another week, more cold weather. I think the purple leaves in the tomatillos are a symptom of the cold, as I had the same problem with my tomato seedlings earlier in the season. (Colder temperatures prevent tomatoes from taking up phosphorus from the soil, so if you see the leaves or stems start to turn [...]

The plants can’t seem to figure out what month it is, thanks to the weather. One day it’s hot and one of my broccoli plants bolted into pretty flowers, the next it’s cool and the radishes and cauliflower are happy but the melons keeled over and died.
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When the pruners can’t be found, no one is safe.

One of the three wine barrel planters in the second row of this picture is not getting enough sun. You be the judge of which barrel of peas is suffering a bit. Click on the image for a larger view.

I did move it into this position for the picture, and so that the one could [...]

The key to avoiding problems at harvest time is preventative strawberry pruning in the spring.

With the rains came heavy winds, and with heavy winds came damage to some tender plants. The tall/skinny things seem to take the worst of it — the iris and the pea shoots.

We actually have four colors of Iris this year that I did not see last year. The things that come up here continue to amaze me! Some people might find the randomness to be annoying, as we didn’t plant any of this stuff so we don’t really know what is going to come up. I [...]

Whether you just bought new strawberry starts or you realized you don’t like where your current strawberry patch is growing, this step-by-step guide will help you get your strawberries off to the right start with a proper planting.

The strawberries are getting a new home this year — a raised garden bed made of cedar! This is how I built it, in case you want to build your own.