Dec 13, 2012 | my gardens, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables, What's for dinner?
Only one quarter of the veggie garden still contains plants, and these grow thinner as we harvest. Still, to be eating from the garden on the thirteenth of December is a real blessing and we don’t take it lightly. Some of tonight’s dinner came from the...
Aug 3, 2012 | Garden Reports and Rejoicing, my gardens, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables, What's for dinner?
Contrary to the popular holiday song, I think that August is the most wonderful time of the year. It’s the month when you can walk into the garden after work and ask, “What’s for dinner?” Tonight the garden answers “Green beans, Zephyr squash, salad, tomatoes and...
Aug 16, 2011 | Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – August 16 Anyone who has a vegetable garden knows that if you go away for a week in August all hell breaks loose. You leave a few baby summer squash on the plants and come home to zucchinis that are suitable for door stops,...
Jul 10, 2011 | Inspiration, Life's Gardens, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables, Report From An Opinionated Gardener
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – July 10 As I was downloading photos of my garden this evening I checked in with my garden writing group on facebook. Derek Powazek wrote about Julie Bass’s struggle to grow vegetables in her front yard in Oak Park, Michigan....
Jun 16, 2011 | my gardens, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables, Report From An Opinionated Gardener
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – June 16 Earlier this season I bought two packs of different varieties of sugar snap peas. I planted one package on one of our reinforcement wire walls and the other packet on the other. The seeds on the lower fencing sprang...
