Garden Update: Time to start eating!

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 […]

Wettest. June. Ever?

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 […]

Garden Update: Delia radicum, destroyer of radishes

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 […]

Garden Update: Bring on the radishes!

“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 […]

Garden Update: Looking Good After Five Weeks!

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 […]

Once again, weather means more when you have a garden…

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. […]

Garden Update: Not all lost in July storms

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 […]

Garden Update: It’s raining again…

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 […]