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Garden Successes–Spring 2022
I’m planning out the garden for 2023, so it seemed a good time to reflect back on how last year’s garden went. Spring’s Successes: Probably my biggest success in Spring 2022 was my basement nursery. I was able to sow and grow over 200 different varieties of plants in a 4’x5’x2′ area with a few…
Fall Sowing, 2022
The garden has been super busy this summer, and I am barely keeping up. (You know, the usual.) I’m still waiting on my tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, and tomatillos to ripen, and I have already harvested the last of the snap peas and fava beans. Carrot and leek harvesting is ongoing; lettuces come and go depending…
What is new in 2022? And, starting to homestead in a suburban lot
This year, despite my best hopes, has become yet another year of intense learning about how best to grow things in my home garden. There are worse things, I know, but I am looking forward to eventually having a calm, uneventful spring in which I already know exactly what I like to grow and how…
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