This morning I started picking snowpeas. I don't have enough for a full meal yet, but that will probably resolve itself in a few days ( Read more... )

Turnips and broccoli raab are up in the garden, in force. Still only one lonely snowpea so far. They could use some more water, I'm sure.

I also need to get a handle on what I'm going to do with the 15 additional varieties of herb seeds that I acquired in an herb swap last week. I'm overrun!

I've returned from Morris dancing in DC to find that the first of the snowpeas in the garden has sprouted, so I assume the others won't be far behind. Meanwhile, the herbs continue to green up and to grow, and I should be able to divide some of them pretty much any time now ( Read more... )

I intended to start seeds indoors around the Equinox, but my seed-starting shelf wasn't built yet. I finished that last week, and last night I finally planted my seeds. This is 2 weeks later than intended, but perhaps not too bad. Time will tell ( Read more... )

• Got the house presentable.
  
• Taught a handful of people how to build self-watering planters.
  
• Hosted a Games Night with terse_scribe.
  
• Met with doverider regarding how to remove the unloved shrubbery from the future raised bed intended for herbs and flowers.
  
• Turned the compost (which had settled more, but which wasn't warm...hmmm). Found a couple of baby slugs under one ( Read more... )

Last week, with the kind help of vibrantabyss, I got the compost bins rebuilt with sod taken up from the new garden plot, stockpiled Winter kitchen scraps, last year's late season yard waste, and what few leaves I could dredge up from the corners of the yard (no trees here ( Read more... )

Today was Part II of the Equinox Gardening Extravaganza.

Today's heavy lifting, at least, was more compatible with my pregnant state, so I felt like I was better able to keep up my share of the labor, and not leave it all to terse_scribeThe day started with acquiring a few edging stones and a few paving stones from Home Depot. We laid edging stones along the ( Read more... )

In a very seasonal move, terse_scribe and I spent the afternoon beginning the process of expanding last year's tiny vegetable garden to a more reasonable size. Being 4.5 months pregnant makes it more difficult to do some of the heavy labor, so terse_scribe was kind enough to remove the existing sod with a garden spade, while I shook the dirt out of the sod pieces ( Read more... )

Yesterday I took another look at the herb garden, and found some new growth on the French tarragon, peppermint, and chives. The tarragon looks like it will be coming back much stronger this year, which is good ( Read more... )

After many months of me complaining about the lack of inexpensive pot roasts (or, indeed, any pot roasts at all) at my local grocery store, they finally appeared last week. So this morning, the crockpot came up from the basement, and in went the roast, some of the root veggies that Boston Organics has so kindly been sending us, a couple of bottle ( Read more... )