digging up my backyard, one vegetable at a time
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I don’t know how I did it, but somehow I convinced my husband to take a two hour drive {4 round trip} out to the Skagit Valley yesterday to check out the tulip fields at RoozenGaarde. And you know what? It was one of the best “date days” we’ve been on all year. In 1955 Dutch Read More >>
Carrots are easily the most forgiving food you can grow. They are slow to germinate, but once they do, they pretty much do all of the work themselves. They can be harvested or “stored” in the ground until you need them. They’ll tolerate a pretty wide range of temperatures too, so long as you mulch Read More >>
While I was working in the garden over the weekend I pulled up the remaining beets I had over wintered in the side garden. I don’t know about you, but roasted beets are one of my all time favorite sides dishes. I came up with this recipe on the fly and let me tell you Read More >>
Have you planted your spring peas yet? Peas are one of the first cool weather crops that can be planted directly in your garden as soon as the soil can be worked…. so what are you waiting for? They are ridiculously easy to grow and have a fairly short growing season, so you ‘ll be Read More >>
Rather than starting onions from seed this year, I’ve decided to plant onion bulbs. It is quicker, easier, and while it is a tiny bit more expensive upfront, I think if I factored in my time and the cost to run the grow light, the difference would be negligible. This time around I am planting Read More >>
