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 […]
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 […]
Garden 7-8
I planted a small spring garden and most of it survived the tree. Later, really too late, but our spring weather was hot, I planted a few tomato plants and […]
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 see the leaves. The leafy layer is not deep, probably an inch deep, more or less.
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, […]
Leek Growth and Care
Once leeks are established, they seem to grow fairly fast. Below are two photographs of my leek bed. The first photograph was taken on May 14th and the second one […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 tough little roots throughout the onion roots and if you are not careful, you will pull up your onions …
Rooting Sweet Potatoes
Two years ago I planted 9 sweet potato plants in an 8×9 foot bed. Eight plants flourished and yielded 52 pounds of sweet potatoes. I commented that was 52 pounds […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 the leek is a tight bundle of leaves. The lower part is usually blanched in the garden by …
Garden Tangle
I am shamelessly ignoring my garden this year. Yet it still blesses me with its beauty and fruit. This year it is more of a wild beauty instead of the […]
Harvesting Sweet Potatoes
Harvest sweet potatoes before the vines have frostbite. Frost on the vines can damage your crop, so if the vines get killed back by frost, cut the vines. Harvest the potatoes […]
