Goose cucumber
My 4 year old called this our goose cucumber, I think I see it.
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- cheap | fall crops | peas
Building a Pea Garden Trellis
When building a pea trellis it is actually pretty hard to do it wrong. All that is needed is a little stability and once the plants grab hold they will make the structure even more stable. My typical strategy when making a pea trellis is to use whatever I happen to find closest to me. Here are a few examples from past and current years of building Bamboo Pole…
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Harvesting seeds from the grocery store
There is more than one way to harvest seeds sure can grow your own but there is also another option. Use seeds someone else grew by buying them at a grocery store or farmers market. Have you ever have bought potatoes, sweet potatoes or yams and noticed sprouts coming out of them, dig a hole and plant them in the ground and in a few weeks you may have…
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Small facelift to site
As you may be able to tell I have been doing a little work on the site. I finally got around to moving from Blogger to WordPress, I never had any real problems with Blogger, I just have a few things I want to do with the site that requires me to self-host and WordPress was the way to go. I am still doing some clean up so please…
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- germination | hydroponics | kids | seeds
Teaching children patience with gardening
It shouldn’t be a surprise that kids these days are not as patient as previous generations. Personally I feel this is less on a change of parenting but a result of children’s expectations created because of the advance of technology. For example, When my daughter asks to watch a particular show “On Demand” and then 5 minutes later asks me to “pause it” so she can go potty. This…
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Make your own seed packets (packet templates)
Last year I did origami seed packets last year which worked out pretty good though I only got two per sheet of paper and didn’t hold too many seeds (especially large seeds like peas) with the many types of seeds I am collecting this year I decided to try another option. I looked online and found many templates, though I couldn’t find any with standard seed package sizes. Eventually…
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When to pick sweet corn
I had to look up this answer myself since this is the first year I have grown sweet corn (Growing Challenge), here is the advice I found online: When the tassels turn dark brown When the juice from kernels are milky white and soft From GardenDesk, corn is ready when the raccoons eat it. From my personal experience, use tassel color to determine if you should even bother checking…
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