Despite my efforts (or lack thereof this summer), the vegetable garden just isn’t producing a heck of a lot. However, we’ve had some gorgeous weather this week so I went out back to take a good hard look at my garden, dig up a few things, address the weeds, and...
A magical summertime pasta dish with a sauce made from corn grated on a box grater!
The Kimble farm had to be put on the back burner the last two months due to a family emergency. This led my focus away from the garden and ultimately I killed lots of things. But it’s ok! We are all alive and sometimes life forces us to take sudden...
Well it’s been a few months since I got my seedlings started, and things are moving right along here. Peppers are always the happiest, and my tomatoes and celery are hanging in there. I lost one tomato and one celery so far, but this is to be expected and I’m...
A task that had been on my back burner for months: deal with all the garlic downstairs! The garlic we grew had been drying in the “larder” (which is just a corner of our basement). But it was time to clean up that area and use the garlic before it...
This fall, our nice days stayed nice well into late October. This is the excuse I’m making for getting my garlic in the ground a bit later than I had planned. Last year I planted in October and that timing was great–scapes arrived in June and the garlic was ready...
We had our first frost warning, so it was time to pull my habaneros and decide what to do with them. This was my first year growing them, and they definitely will be a repeat in our garden next year. I used six of my peppers, along with two of...
Turn, turn, turn. A time to plant, a time to harvest. I woke up today thinking it was time to turn the garden over, pull out the failed plants, and sow my garlic. After all, my garlic has been here for over two weeks anxious to get in the ground....
