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Posts Tagged ‘vegetables’
Overwhelmed with tomatoes?
what to do when all you see are tomatoes for miles around?
Garlic Update
Garlic is easy to grow and easy to put away for the winter.
Ding! Time to get a jump on a fall garden
OK, it’s mid-July here at Chez Siberia and it’s been horrifically hot. And dry. And the garden is not, shall we say, looking its best. We’re still harvesting but there are parts of beds that have been picked over, harvested out. There are lettuces that have bolted. (the photo above is basil – which does [...]
One Year Later – A Report
Literally one year ago, I posted this report on the garden: End of March Report
Now, if you’d like to read that whole thing, go right ahead, but here are the three important bullet points:
By the end of March, 2009:
We’d had a very dry spring so far.
The Rhubarb was already up.
The soil temperatures all over the [...]
Early Spring Gardening
One of the things I find really attractive about gardening is that there is always something happening – even at a place like Chez Siberia (where parts of the property are Zone 2 in terms of what will survive). This week was no exception. You’d think that nothing is happening in the garden here but [...]
Bringing Spring
Sometimes, Aunt Toby is wont (yes, wont) to taking things into her knobby but capable hands and not taking ‘no’ for an answer. This year’s winter has been, for practically the entire Continental United States, one long sitting through of “Ground Hog Day”.
Awful. Miserable. Interminable.
If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.
Is there anyone in the world who has not seen “Avatar”? Well, if you haven’t, what I’m going to say is NOT a spoiler. For those of you who have seen it, think of the scene where Sully first sees his avatar in the tank…floating there, in the moisture….happy..peaceful..content…
This photo shows something that is [...]
It’s Later Than You Think: Order Garden Seeds Now
One good reason to order your garden seeds now: last year, seed sellers reporting running our by March.
Plant ‘em if you’ve got ‘em
Spring is months away. One way to get a little bit of spring going is to start some seeds for greens as a window sill garden.
Kitchen Counter Economics is a community where we can share ideas on how to save money, live more sustainably, and gain control over the stuff of daily living for ourselves and our families in the current economic environment. This started as a series of diary postings at the 
