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Hard to believe tomorrow is December 1, and the garden is still going. I probably should have been decorating and shopping this past Sunday, but couldn't quite bring myself to get into holiday-insanity mode. Not with the sun shining and weeds to be pulled!
Here are our homemade hoop houses. (Gotta love duct tape.)
Below, from left to right, are kohlrabi, beets, pac choi (?) cabbage, and carrots.
And here's spinach, broccoli rabe, swiss chard and some sort of green whose name I forget. It's supposed to grow when it's 30 below. Or something like that.
And finally, the take from what's still hanging in under row covers: more chard, kale, and baby carrots. Sure am enjoying this year's grand garden experiment.
To me, gardening is a sort of moving meditation. It also gets the ideas flowing. I don't know why this is– I'm happy just to keep digging.
... but winter is long so I'm reveling in spring, rainy though it may be. This picture doesn't do justice to the roses. They bloom for such a short while. This was during a rare moment of sun yesterday afternoon:
And this lady was in the backyard three mornings in a row last week laying her eggs, before she wandered back into the pond:
This strange looking vine with huge leaves popped up in our little side garden at the beginning of summer. I decided to leave it, figuring it was some sort of seed that sprouted from the undercooked compost I'd put down. And besides, by mid to end summer the roses usually looked fairly ratty, so at least it would add some green. But what was this mystery vine? We soon had a clue....
Could it be a Butternut Squash?
It was! It was a Butternut Squash! So we cooked it up. Yum! We should have let it ripen a bit more on the vine, but it was delicious, anyway.
We've also been growing cucumbers, zucchini, yellow squash, tomatoes and peppers. This was our first year experimenting with container vegetables. Not everything has been a bountiful success, but we did okay, considering the strange weather. (At least we kept the deer away!) We'll experiment some more next year.
It feels good to play with a garden, or a story, or a piece of art...
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By: Rebecca,
on 11/8/2007
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Lovely!
these look wonderful jen! oh how i wish....
Nice Blog :)
Thanks, Lisa!
And Christine... I wish, too!!!
Thank you, Lee! :-)
Jennifer! I love the hoops! (Do you have a post where you talked about how you made them? I totally need some!!!)
Tara-- They were fairly easy and cheap compared to pre-made ones in the catalogs... it's pvc electrical conduit pipe from Home Depot, 10-foot lengths (or cut to whatever length you like), then covered with greenhouse plastic. (Found that online.) The plastic is attached with duct tape and whatever clamps we had laying around, and then husband put a board along one edge that can be rolled up. Also-- he built a wooden frame for the base out of untreated pine and drilled holes to fit the piping. Might have gone a little overboard on that part, since I think it would be just as easy to put the piping in the ground wherever you need it.
We'll probably modify them as we go along-- I think they could be lower to the ground-- and I'll also probably put row covers on the veggies inside when it gets really frigid. Hope this all makes sense! ;-)
Nice Blog :)
Very cool! (I just forwarded this post to my husband since he keeps threatening to make me some. :-).