A novice's attempt to get 15 percent of his food from his suburban fifth acre
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 22nd, 2010
Getting to one percent feels like getting a point in a game that would have otherwise been a shut out — and despite the tasty food we’ve harvested sporadically in the past 10 months, there have been many times, even recently, that I’ve felt aced by the yard, certain that we’d come up not just [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 14th, 2010
Last week I dug up ready potatoes that had been thriving in a small plot below our bougainvillea. In the past two weeks the tops had turned yellow like straw and wilted to the ground. I gave them one last watering, as recommended in various readings I’d read, and a few days later carefully scratched [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 8th, 2010
I had nothing to do with the most brilliantly green, healthy, sturdy potatoes growing in my yard. These half dozen tall shoots found their own way, and have been managed expertly by a decomposing pile of food and yard waste. I feel slighted, but thankful. By comparison, the potato plants for which I chose locations, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 20th, 2009
Following the advice of a Guide to Growing Delicious Vegetables, Fruits & Herbs, I dug up some spuds for which the green tops had died back. I’d planted a few rows of Purple Viking potatoes late in the season (end of May) — not ideal. However, the foot-high plants were one of the few things [...]
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