Oregon Tree Hugger

Click on any image for a larger view and a slideshow of all images. This year was so bad for tomatoes that I got ONE chocolate cherry tomato. This is the same variety I ate barrels of last year, and this year I ended up with one. The original bush was snapped off about a [...]

This is the first year I have grown cauliflower, but I love eating it (especially with onion dip HA). I had no idea what to get but this was called Amazing Cauliflower so I couldn’t go wrong … right? The first head matured and was cut today, and it really is quite amazing. The taste [...]

So I have two "members" in my little CSA now who pick up weekly boxes. It’s helping to fund the garden for us to eat, which sort of helps me to mentally justify the expense of it all. (If you think about it, a small addition to the garden is allowing me to have enough [...]

The sun finally peeked through for a few hours on Friday evening, and I swear the plants took it as an opportunity to double in size. Those vile mosquitoes also took it as a reason to break out of hibernation — after only an hour of sun, one landed on my arm (and was immediately [...]

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. Click on any picture to see the gallery.

Normally I water my garden at ground level using a watering wand, but I’ve decided to give it a "rain bath" two or three times a month. I basically use the wand as a shower to give the garden a heavy rain from above.

I found an awesome planting chart at OSU if you want to grow pretty much anything in Oregon. You can find the PDF here: Vegetable Gardening in Oregon. It breaks Oregon down into the different regions—coastal, western valley, mountains and eastern plains—and tells you what and when to plant for each location, including when to [...]