Tag: vegetable garden
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Six on Saturday | 11th April 2026
Week six. Ten beds down, the alliums are in the ground, someone has been eating my pea seedlings, and the bird feeder is doing brisk business. Plus a baguette mystery.
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Six on Saturday | 4th April 2026
Week five, beds waking up, and the neighbors are still giving me looks. Asparagus and garlic beds cleaned up and interplanted, carrots in the ground chasing 2023’s legendary surplus, and a mystery volunteer that may or may not be borage.
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Six on Saturday | 21st March 2026
This week we’re going indoors. One pothos cutting from 2010 became a dynasty spanning every room in the house. There’s also a revenge Brugmansia, a succulent that taught my son that broken doesn’t mean dead, a Christmas cactus I snapped in half, and two freshly planted beds of broad beans.
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Six on Saturday | 14th March 2026
The first seeds went into the ground this week — 274 grams of homegrown peas, pressed into the soil by hand. The comeback year is officially underway. Also: survivor thymes, immortal bergenias, a zombie apple tree, and two beds of defrosted freezer archaeology serving as a wildlife buffet.
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Six on Saturday | 7th March 2026
I took a year off from the garden. Not on purpose — 2025 was just that kind of year. But it’s early March, the snow is pulling back, and I went outside with a cold and a pair of boots to see what survived. Turns out the garden carried on without me, slightly offended.
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June 2024 Vegetable Garden Tour
One year later and here we go again! A video taking you around the raised beds to see what’s growing in this year’s veg garden. It’s been fun to compare how much has changed since last year’s tour. I hope to do one of the flower garden as well, after I clean it up next…
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Six on Saturday | 2nd December 2023
I was going to skip SoS this week since I’m still catching up on reading the last couple of weeks’ posts from everybody and didn’t think there was much to share out here other than more snow. Yet here I am again because I realized that I’ve never tried documenting winter in the garden before…
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Six on Saturday | 25th November 2023
The snow I promised to photograph arrived this past week. Today was a clear and crisp and very brisk -7°C, so I crunched around outside in my biggest pair of boots to show you the current state of the garden. 1. Standard view of the veg garden, winter edition. The ground is frozen and it’s…
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Six on Saturday | 18th November 2023
First post of winter, brrr! Our nights have consistently been dipping below 0°C now, though not very far below most of the time. Enough to justify a fire in a woodstove and candles everywhere, though! There are about six hours between sunrise and sunset at the moment, though that’s closer to five hours of usable…
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Six on Saturday | 11th November 2023
It’s supposed to rain for most of this weekend, but I’ll be ducking out during the lighter portions to harvest what I can because winter officially begins for us next week. The nighttime temps will be consistently below 0ºC, the snow will fall, and the ground will be frozen solid after a few weeks. I’ve…