A novice's attempt to get 15 percent of his food from his suburban fifth acre
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 22nd, 2010
I have tried many things to keep safe this latest round of edibles, so it’s hard to say which of the many worked best, which was the bellwether of our current good fortune. Likely, our flourishing garden results from a confluence that would be hard to parse. Insects have ceased to be a serious threat, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9th, 2010
A frost-less winter had me ready to write a breathy tribute to my great success in overwintering last season’s tomatoes — a pair of Beefsteaks and a Husky Cherry — despite the fact that I put no effort into the overwintering and had even less to do with whether or not our region had a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 15th, 2009
When I wrote a few weeks ago about the preponderance of male flowers in my winter squash as the culprit behind the failure my cucurbits to fruit, I had also spent some time researching another symptom that had been plaguing those plants. The fruitlessness is the result of insufficient pollination, as I previously indicated. The [...]
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