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Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes, it is a triumph of hope over experience. — Marina Schinz Garden bounty! Swiss chard, black seeded lettuce, summer squash and the first (cherry) tomato of the season, June 28, 2013. (Click image for larger version) Just a quick update today, I was just too busy […] What a difference a month and over eight inches of rain makes! Plot #63 at Roseville Community Garden on Tuesday, May 14, 2013. (Click the photo to enlarge) Plot #63 at Roseville Community Garden on Sunday, June 16, 2013. (Click the photo to enlarge) As New Jersey approaches its wettest June […] God in His wisdom made the fly and then forgot to tell us why. ~Ogden Nash, “The Fly” Delia radicum – commonly known as the cabbage fly, or cabbage root fly – ate my radishes. Allow me to correct myself…the squirming white cabbage fly maggots ate my radishes. And their name fits their crime! Another […] “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 […] Because the ‘wildest’ thing she is used to seeing are Segways on blacktop, I’m posting a panoply of black Aberdeen Angus cattle in fields of green for an urban-dwelling Twitter friend. OK, @RWRenfrew, here’s the beef! This year’s herd is out grazing in the fields surrounding Roseville Community Garden, and are quite entertaining to watch […] 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 […] |