If you’ve been to this blog before then you know that it is mostly about using a bike as a regular form of transportation, but it’s also about food (that I grow and cook), and about living simply (which is the most difficult thing, I think). At-any-rate, I am a proponent of getting rid ofContinue reading “Really Good Food From A Really Small Garden”
Tag Archives: Gardening
Crop Rotation…Bike Rotation
Every year when I plant my vegetable garden it is just a new experiment. It all started about 20 years go when I pushed a few seedlings into the moist ground and watered them…and to my surprise they grew. I’ve been hooked ever since. I try to do something new every year. This year IContinue reading “Crop Rotation…Bike Rotation”
Front Yard Vegetable Garden
The front yard victory garden is planted…ah the anticipation. For resources (and inspiration mostly) on turning your front yard into a vegetable garden click here and here. To see pictures of my front yard vegetable gardens from previous years click here, here, here, here, and here. Urban Simplicity.
Things That Grow Back
Yup, it’s almost that time of year again…time to start planting vegetables. I look at it with both dread and anticipation…I enjoy doing it but anyone that plants a garden knows how much work it is, especially in the beginning. But one of the things that I enjoy about this time of year, the timeContinue reading “Things That Grow Back”
Last of the Season
Dug up what remained of the garden yesterday….I’m always a little surprised what I find under wilted leaves and plants this late in the season. I love autumn (it’s my favorite season) but it’s also a somewhat melancholy time for me, I know what’s ahead…time to brace for the long darkness of winter. I loveContinue reading “Last of the Season”
Autumn
Autumn. Gardening is over, essentially. And it was a lousy year for it, too. Low yield (probably because of all the rain in the beginning of the season)…some stuff died (corn mostly…not sure why, but other stuff, too…mostly because of my neglect)…and what did survive was taken by the rabbits (damned urban rabbits, click here).Continue reading “Autumn”
Ratatouille and Pasta (sans aubergine)
My gardens are not doing that well this year…partly because of the crazy wet summer we’ve had, but also because of my lack of weeding and trimming (not to mention what the rabbits and slugs have pilfered)…it really is out of control. At any rate, I am finally starting to get a few things, andContinue reading “Ratatouille and Pasta (sans aubergine)”
Urban Rabbits
I planted six broccoli plants this year….four of them were doing exceptionally well. I use the past tense, were, because this is all that remains of them. A couple days ago these leafy plants were about two feet wide but this is all that’s left…stumps. It seems like rabbits are everywhere in the city thisContinue reading “Urban Rabbits”
Beautiful Heirloom
Summer’s Bounty
Invasion Of The Giant Zucchini (Courgette)
I hadn’t been in my backyard for about a week or so, and was overwhelmed at the sheer number of large zucchini growing…it’s amazing how many vegetables two zucchini plants will produce…they are literally taking over the teeny garden (and they were so cute and small when I pushed the seedlings into the ground lastContinue reading “Invasion Of The Giant Zucchini (Courgette)”
Victory Gardens Matter
3rd Generation Sunflower
I planted a sunflower close to my front porch two years ago. Last year a few feet in front of the original location another grew without me planting it…seeds fell and it replanted itself. This year a few feet further the same thing happened. Nature takes care of itself if we let it. Beautiful. IContinue reading “3rd Generation Sunflower”
First Day of Summer Garden Pics
Red Cabbage and Brussels Sprouts Heirloom Tomatoes Corn
Virgin Pepper
It’s tiny and it’s beautiful…and I realize I was a little anticipatory by plucking it from its plant so early…I was just so surprised when I looked down and saw it hanging there. I grew it from seed…amazing. It’s the first actual vegetable (opposed to an herb) I plucked from the garden this year, exceptContinue reading “Virgin Pepper”
First Steps
We’ll, it’s that time of year again…time to start working on the vegetable garden. I love my little house and I love the beautiful neighborhood in which I live, but I have to admit if there were one thing I could change it would be to a larger plot of land. When I say IContinue reading “First Steps”
Future Food
They’ll be in the ground this weekend…very exciting.
Everything’s Got A Purpose
This is one of the many things that I find truly amazing: put a seed in the ground and it grows. Exactly eight days ago I pushed a bunch of seeds into little plastic trays with soil in them, watered them and put the trays on a table. Within a few days some of theContinue reading “Everything’s Got A Purpose”
Signs of Renewal
Chives and garlic…these are always the first to emerge; to me it’s the first real sign of spring. And it amazes me, it really does. I’ve mentioned in previous posts about the harshness of this past winter (I don’t mean to keep harping on it, but it really was cold and snowy…even by Buffalo standards)Continue reading “Signs of Renewal”
Anticipation
Well…it’s that time of the year again. Time to start thinking about the vegetable garden. One of the best ways (I think) to live simply in the city, and be in touch with nature, is to grow vegetables. It is so easy…and an on going experiment for me. Because I have such a small cityContinue reading “Anticipation”
Urban Simplicty 