The transition from spring to summer became official in the garden when, about two weeks ago now, temperatures reached triple digits more often than not. Some years are just like that – a late frost and a month later it is 100 degrees most days until September. As you can imagine, most of the spring…
The story of the spring garden is much like past years… in some ways. We plant early to try to beat the summer heat because it isn’t abnormal to be cool like spring one week and in the 90s the next. We are now already full-on in the latter stage, by the way. But this…
All last week was pretty warm so we decided to go ahead and get most of the spring garden in. As we have expanded our growing spaces, we tend to have one to two very full weeks of garden preparation and sowing every spring. So last week we set school aside, let the dishes and…
Last week, after cutting and curing the potatoes for just a few days, it was time to put them in the ground. We had spent the last couple of weeks marking and digging the rows which made planting day go a bit more smoothly. Stewart spent the morning taking turns with the children moving up…
