Maybe I’m a little strange (OK, I am a little strange) but I find this truly beautiful. Two cabbage plants in the front yard on a warm evening as the sun was hitting them just right…almost sensual aren’t they? (Click the image for a larger view.) I see home-grown autumn sauerkraut and kim-chi in myContinue reading “Cabbage: Two Views”
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A Salad Worth Fighting For
The above photo is the first (mostly) complete meal I’ve made from my front-yard garden this season. I say mostly complete because not everything in it was from the garden. Being early in the season (and the fact that I got a late start), the garden has a small amount of a lot of differentContinue reading “A Salad Worth Fighting For”
Front Yard Wheat
This is a picture of a continuation of two previous posts (click here and here) regarding my garden experiment for 2011…front yard wheat. It’s only a small patch to see if it would grow–it is–so maybe next year there will be more. There won’t be nearly enough to make enough flour for a loaf ofContinue reading “Front Yard Wheat”
Anticipation…
I was pleasantly surprised when I went to the garden tonight to snap a few photos. It was the evening and the sun hits the plants “just right.” Because of my late start this year I did not expect any flowers or fruit yet, but upon closer inspection there is plenty. I ate beans asContinue reading “Anticipation…”
Grow Your Own…
It is still pretty early in the growing season for Western New York State (and we had a late start) but some things are already coming to fruition. Tonight, for example, I was able to make an excellent green and red leaf salad flavored with herbs (and one single piece of broccoli) that my sonContinue reading “Grow Your Own…”
Still Planting…
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts regarding gardening, my vegetable garden(s) are a new experiment each year. In fact they began as an experiment about twenty years ago. I pushed a few things in the ground and was surprised that they grew…and grew and grew. Anyhow that was an apartment and a house ago…the houseContinue reading “Still Planting…”
Front Yard Broccoli in the Morning
OK, so I know that’s a hokey title for this post…but the photo is what it is. This morning, just before I left for work, I went out to the front yard garden–coffee cup in hand–to see if rabbits had a buffet last night (they didn’t…yet) and was taken by how the sun was reflectingContinue reading “Front Yard Broccoli in the Morning”
The Birds Didn’t Get It All…
For the past few days I’ve felt like “old farmer Joe” as I shooed birds away from my experimental little wheat field (er…wheat patch). Each morning as I’d get up there would be a crowd of birds bobbing and pecking away at the wheat kernels; I thought for sure they’d get it all…but they didn’t.Continue reading “The Birds Didn’t Get It All…”
First Signs of Spring
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like this has been a long winter; not terribly snowy but very cold. Anyhow, as I was taking out the trash yesterday I spotted this…the tiny dot of green which you see in the above image. Last autumn, just before the real cold came, I pulled out anyContinue reading “First Signs of Spring”
Fall Harvest
I finally pulled up the garden in the front yard today. We haven’t had any frost yet so there were still vegetables growing. Amazing! I would have let it grow longer but this Saturday I am getting my annual shipment of firewood and he dumps it (you guessed it) right in the front yard. IContinue reading “Fall Harvest”
Sidewalk Brussels Sprouts
Over the years I have really grown (pun intended) to love cruciferous vegetables but have never really had much luck in my garden with brussels sprouts…usually all leaf and no vegetable. But that’s not the case this year. I have 4 plants growing in my front yard about 12 inches from the sidewalk. Maybe itContinue reading “Sidewalk Brussels Sprouts”
After The Rain (bis)
Late Summer’s Harvest
Summer!
I Love this…as hot and humid as it has been this year I am really enjoying it. The garden is literally out of control. You can barley see the Mundo locked up to the hitching post behind the cucumber, broccoli, green beans, and corn. Whenever I start to get down about how hot it hasContinue reading “Summer!”
Really Good Food From A Really Small Garden
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”
Old Garden Posters
I Love these…old adverts for victory gardens (also called liberty gardens during WW I).With the food issues we have today (and I’m not talking about scarcity, but more so about factory farming, pesticides, and lack of diversity) I can’t help but wonder if these posters aren’t more relevant than ever.
This is the last pepper I am going to purchase…
…at least for this season. I have 28 pepper plants (6 varieties), among other things, growing in my super-teeny Allentown “front yard.” Some are already starting to flower…very exciting. Urban Simplicity.
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”
Urban Simplicty 