Winter Flowers It’s still cold, with temperatures on most days bouncing back and forth around freezing. For the most part any flowers you see are long dead, like these following
There are still several more weeks left before the garden shuts down for the winter, but between the impending installation of the tight tank, and the fact that we’re just
We had a little dilemma this past week. The seed garlic heads arrived earlier than we expected…and the installation of the tight tank to replace our dead cesspool is going
About a month ago, I wrote a post about an experiment I was trying in a technique called solarizing. The object of this experiment was to find a natural way
A number of our plants have reached the end of their productive cycle and it’s time for them to get pulled. The melons, both types of cucumbers (pickling and slicing),
Tomatoes are one of those crops that are unlike anything else when grown fresh. Between the flavor, the juiciness and the texture, a home-grown tomato is far superior to anything
So, my plan this year was to grow jalapeños to add to my homemade salsa along with the green chiles that I grow each year. It’s been somewhere around 15
One day, while perusing Rodale’s Garden Problem Solver to look up a tomato plant disease, I came across a brief explanation of solarizing. This is essentially a natural means of
Between our own bushes, and the excursions that Mrs. Butcher and I have taken to harvest the bushes on the island from our canoe, we had about 1.5 gallons of