The Garden for Eatin'--for Practical Vegetable Gardening

This year's strawberry bed Thinking spring already. My DH is planning for a new strawberry bed next year. He has already transplant...

July 16, 2011--first pick of the season Mmmm...sweet corn is ready. One of the best times of the gardening year, I think. We've wat...

Yes, we are still battling slugs, those voracious creatures that look like shell-less snails. Read my post  Grudge Against Slugs, June 15. ...

Our empty plot is filling up fast and now it is a garden. At last we are getting some nice rain, warm sunshine, mild nights. Here are a few...

Perhaps to us Northerners winter gardening is an oxymoron. Our gardens lie sleeping under the blanket of winter snow. However, those who liv...

Alas, the time has come to acknowledge that summer can't last forever. We must prepare our gardens for next spring. I know that you gard...

Here they come!! The beans are on the bushes and picking has begun. Hooray! Green beans are the second most popular plant for gardeners aft...

My hubby was planting tiny little lettuce seeds into the sectioned flats this morning at coffee time. Yes, instead of talking to me, he was...

Broccoli plants in our garden taken a couple of weeks ago. The heads are now mature and ready to eat. We have had steamed broccoli, bo...

Herbs are not veggies, so they may not actually be a topic for a vegetable gardening blog. But after extensive lolling this over in my mind,...

This time of the year looks like a fantasy land in my neck of the woods. The abundant blooms on the flowering trees, the colorful spring fl...