Tuesday I bought 9 Beauregard sweet potato plants from a local store. I haven't grown sweet potatoes in a very long time. This afternoon I started digging the bed for the plants. Sweet potatoes like a … [Read more...]
Sweet Potato Curing Rig
This is a rewrite, from memory, of a lost blog post that I wrote in 2008 about my sweet potato curing rig. This was my sweet potato curing rig from a few years ago. It worked well, the sweet … [Read more...]
Onions Update
Despite my lack of time to take care of my garden, the onions are doing well. I have weeded them three times and I have sprinkled dry leaves over them. In the photograph below, you should be able to … [Read more...]
Planting Potatoes and Onions
Yesterday, February 28th, I had just finished digging 3 trenches for potatoes and prepared one bed for onions when a blustery storm chased me into the house. It rained hard, it rained sideways, and it … [Read more...]
Leek Trenches Shifted
Because I am a rookie leek grower and I do not know any better, I have shifted the trench walls over against the plants further burying (blanching) them. Maybe it was a good move, maybe it wasn't. The … [Read more...]
Peppers and Cool Weather
The temperatures where I live have been getting rather low at night, too low for peppers, maybe. While outside today, I noticed that two of my peppers are droopy. While I can't say with certainty that … [Read more...]
Rooting Sweet Potatoes II
This is an update from "Rooting Sweet Potatoes" [tagged Sweet Potatoes]. The sweet potato sprouts and the cut sweet potatoes have been in water for six days. Since then, I have changed the water … [Read more...]
Onions and Herbs
Have you ever grown onions? I have a few times, not many. The hardest part of growing onions is keeping the weeds out. Onions are set close together, only 4 inches apart, and weeds can weave their … [Read more...]
Rooting Sweet Potatoes
Two years ago I planted 9 sweet potato plants in an 8x9 foot bed. Eight plants flourished and yielded 52 pounds of sweet potatoes. I commented that was 52 pounds more than I buy in a year. And now, … [Read more...]
Garden Mulch for the Leeks
I gathered the mulch from the woods to place around the leek plants and over the entire bed, including the trench walls. Below is a close up picture of the mulched bed. To spread the mulch, I … [Read more...]
Preparing the Leek Bed and Planting
Spontaneously and without a plan, rather like the way I bought leeks to plant, I decided to plant the leeks in this spot. This spot gets a little evening shade from a large oak tree. The plant tag … [Read more...]
Leeks
I have never grown leeks before, but this year I will. Leek is in the Alliaceae. Other plants in that family are onions and garlic. Unlike the bulb that onion and garlic produces, the lower part of … [Read more...]
Zucchini
My garden loves me I think. My 4 zucchini plants have been plagued with squash vine borers for several weeks now. The stems are pitted but they root and grow. I'm glad too, my family has discovered … [Read more...]
Tomatoes After Dark
For the past couple of weeks, I have tried to take photographs of my tomato plants but in the photographs they look like big green blobs. Tonight while dumping some tomato peelings on the compost pile … [Read more...]
Update: Sweet Potatoes
This is a sweet potato update. Because I posted how I plant sweet potatoes, it seems appropriate that I should post an update on their progress. The sweet potatoes have been in the ground for 27 days. … [Read more...]
