A novice's attempt to get 15 percent of his food from his suburban fifth acre
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 6th, 2010
How many iterations can a single season’s garden have? Since sowing our first sets of Contender bush beans on March 12, I have reconstituted our warm-season plantings four times, resulting in a landscape completely different than that of early March — and certainly one far removed from what I conceived in winter, when all there [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 21st, 2010
I have perhaps set a brazen schedule for our second spring. The last warm season’s utter failure is one impetus. The crushing persistence of the local pests is another. But ultimately my broad catalog has been inspired by all that I have learned. This warm season we will plant many traditional or heirloom varieties of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 10th, 2009
There’s room for cautious optimism regarding the cold-season crop developing in my yard. Snaking vines of Waltham Butternut, Pink Banana, and Table Queen Acorn Squash dominate the three raised beds I recently built, which have successfully kept the young plants out of reach of most pests. Bull’s Blood Beets share space with Autumn King Carrots. [...]
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