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“A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.” — Clementine Paddleford ‘Radish’ is the word at the end of the sixth week of the 2013 garden season. Big bunches of French Breakfast Radish, Pink Beauty Radish, Cherry Belle Radish, and a couple Short Top Icicle White Radish. Getting an early jump on preparing […] In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it. ~Frank McKinney Hubbard Plot 63, Roseville Community Garden on Sunday, May 26, 2013 (Click photo for larger image.) Memorial Day weekend, five full weeks since Plot #63 at Roseville Community Garden was planted, and the garden’s progress is […] As I learned very quickly last year, when you have a garden, you are often at the mercy of Mother Nature. This was true again in the very early morning hours of Tuesday, May 14, 2013. On Sunday, May 12, the National Weather Service had issued a frost advisory for the area on Monday morning. […] Yikes! It’s already Labor Day weekend. Where did August go? A crazy August schedule with a client job has kept my “free time” for blogging to a minimum, and thus it’s been more than a month since my last garden update post. So there’s some serious catching up to do. The first “replant” after the […] Woke up to a seasonably warm, muggy, mid-summer Saturday morning. Grabbed a cup of coffee, “opened office” under the patio umbrella and finished up some client work left over from the week. I had every intention of doing this and a few household chores before heading down to the garden to weed and finish trimming […] Summer has set in with its usual severity. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge July? July? Where did June go? With the weather we’ve had the last few weeks, you could almost convince me it’s August already! Daily high and low temperatures are averaging 5-15 degrees above normal, and have caused an explosion of growth in the garden. […] |