Yes, my greens are not a fig newton of my imagination — they really do exist! I just finally got around to showing them to you. The greens in the pix above are just my mustard greens on the left, and my bok choy on the right — the photo doesn’t show you my kale [...]
Archive for the ‘Square Foot Gardening’ Category
Happy New Year, and I Finally Gots the Greens!
Posted in Cooking, Food, Self-Sufficiency, Square Foot Gardening, tagged Cooking, Greens, Self-Sufficiency, Square Foot Gardening, Suburban Farming, Urban Farming, Urban Gardening on January 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Grow Yer Own? Thoughts on Salon.com’s Article
Posted in Container Gardening, Self-Sufficiency, Square Foot Gardening, tagged Container Gardening, Hydroponics, Lasagna Gardening, Mittleider Gardening, Salon.com, Self-Sufficiency, Square Foot Gardening on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning, whilst beginning my day at ye olde soul-sucking job, I was, of course, cruising the Internet instead of working (“Bad Zippy, Bad Girl!”). Salon.com happens to be one of the sites I visit throughout the day, even though I often get annoyed by much of Salon’s whiny intellectuals skeptical over any damn thing [...]
Garden Update 3.5: More on the B-nut, & yah, I forgot the B-eyed Peas!
Posted in Container Gardening, Square Foot Gardening, tagged Butternut Squash, Container Gardening, Square Foot Gardening, Urban Gardening on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I tell ya, raising veggies and fruit (and cats) is almost as nerve-wracking as what I imagine raising kids is. After a day at the old soul-sucking job, I get home, love on my furry babies, change clothes and go check on my green babies, and whatta ya know, I’ve got two more wilted squash [...]
Garden Update 3: Giii-normous Butternut Squash Plant!
Posted in Container Gardening, Square Foot Gardening, tagged Container Gardening, Self-Sufficiency, Square Foot Gardening, Squash, Urban Farming on September 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Wow, now if only the squash fruit gets just as big, I’ll have a fab crop of B-nut squash! I am so happy to report that after my failed first go-round with planting butternut squash in a large container earlier this summer, I’ve now got vines out the wazoo, with big, healthy leaves and lots of [...]
Garden Update 1: Monster Malabar!
Posted in Container Gardening, Cooking, Food, Square Foot Gardening, tagged Container Gardening, Cooking, Square Foot Gardening on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I had hopped to keep things up to date a bit more with this here blog, but life just kinda conspires against ya sometimes, doesn’t it? I’ve been a busy little beaver this summer, though unfortunately I haven’t been as busy as I would have liked to have been with my green babies. In [...]
Excuses to stay up — UrbanGardenCasual.com
Posted in Square Foot Gardening, tagged Square Foot Gardening, Urban Farming, Urban Gardening on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
OK, so I said to myself this week, “Zip, last week you got to bed at 11:30 pm almost every night, when you had to get up at 5:30 am to get ready for work, so this week you are getting to bed as close to 10:30 pm as possible.” Well, I did that Sunday, [...]
Sphagnum Peat Moss Update
Posted in Square Foot Gardening, tagged Square Foot Gardening, Suburban Farming on July 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well, forget what I told you about using sphagnum moss instead of sphagnum peat moss in your SFG. Turns out I was wrong, wrong, wrong (to the tune of the Amy Winehouse Rehab refrain).
For one thing, I found out Saturday in my daily idle Internet surfing that sphagnum moss, the stuff I had said is a more [...]
We have sprouts!
Posted in Square Foot Gardening, tagged Square Foot Gardening, Suburban Farming, Urban Farming on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know I’ve been a little bit behind in my posting lately — I’ve just been very, very busy. Before things got too far ahead of me, however, I wanted to mention that a couple of weeks ago I planted some butternut squash from seed I’d saved from an organic squash I got from Whole [...]
Indiana Jones and the Square Foot Garden
Posted in Square Foot Gardening, tagged Square Foot Gardening, Suburban Farming, Urban Farming on May 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Certainly the title of this post is not as sexy as say, “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” or even the title of the new Indy movie, “Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull,” but I feel it is apropos of my experience creating my tiny square foot garden yesterday.
Cutting through dense and difficult [...]
Some thoughts about SFG
Posted in Square Foot Gardening, tagged Square Foot Gardening on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, I know I said I needed to go to bed, but I just wanted to write a little bit about what I’m thinking about doing with the SFG, and I also really wanted to show you my picture of the Malabar Spinach I bought at the Natural Gardener — I’m very proud of it!
When I [...]
