So I bought a few late season gallon size tomato plants. By few I mean four. Yeah yeah I know it's June. Yeah yeah I know it's cheating to buy tomato plants that already have baby tomatoes on them. Guess what? I don't care- I just want to maximize my chances of absolute tons of … Continue reading Gripped by the tomato madness
Yesterday I was fed up with how runty and withered my two smallest cauliflowers were, so I pulled the weakest. Low and behold, the roots were crawling with cabbage fly maggots. I pulled the other one too- same story. The problem was, as you can see from one of the healthier ones- The roots actually … Continue reading A Buggy start to May
So this was a good day, mostly. I got my new fabric bed in the mail a few days ago but I underestimated its size and realized I needed more soil than I actually had. A trip to the garden center was in order. I got some blue lake green beans sets along with a … Continue reading New plants, new bed, and bad news
I had only two things to get beside the soil today. Seed potatoes and two extra potato bags. I got tomatoes. I also got a six-pack of cauliflower sets which is a much saner purchase than March tomatoes. In my defense- they were on sale. In not my defense it's going to rain in a … Continue reading The magnificence and risk of early tomatoes
The day has arrived! Soil has come! Holy crap I am tired. That is a huddle of twelve bags of soil. Boy howdy was that a trip. Never been happier my dad has a Subaru. Not sure how I'd have gotten it home otherwise. I got some... other things at the local garden center but … Continue reading Part two of new raised bed adventures
The Neanderthal Gardens 