Spinach, May 27.
Cool nights, damp days, occasional sun breaks: perfect weather for spinach. We planted our spinach on March 21. Last frost is usually March 15, but this year we had frost through March. It didn’t seem to hurt the spinach. This year’s seeds were from Territorial Seed; Olympia...
New lettuce plants.
Lettuce is a name for a Tokyo Mew Mew anime character, a rager band [sorry, no link], a group of ladies [no, no link], an initiative to prevent e. coli eruptions, a Sydney taxi driver with a blog, a Yuma Lettuce Days festival, and, well, you get the idea. Pets are probably named...
Chive buds.
Chives wave their hollow leaves (known as “straws”) gently in the breezes, their purple buds dancing along with the beat. I think they are trying to attract attention. They are mentioned only in passing in chapters on alliums. Yet they can be found in most herb gardens and kitchen...
Young Rhubard March 18.
Another weird plant. Rhubarb stalks look like celery, but they are nothing like it. The stalks are edible, the leaves are poisonous. The roots last for years. The taste is wonderful! Rhubarb is also called the pie plant. My great aunt did. She loved rhubarb pie.
When we moved...
Egyptian Walking Onions.
Egyptian walking onions are very strange. As youngsters, they grow very much like scallions. But as teenagers, they develop lumps on their green hollow leaves, bulges that produce tiny red bulblets which, in turn, produce leaves, which then go on to produce more bulges and bulblets....
Jan I'm surprised Home Depot had these. I think I got my original starts from Territorial...
We live on the shores of Puget Sound, across from Seattle. We moved here in 1999, and slowly began building vegetable gardens, herb gardens and planting berries, edible bushes and trees. This blog is about keeping track of our food garden. We have never been very good at garden event logging. Things like planting dates, sprouting times, first frost, last frost, when things flower (read “bolt” in the vegetable garden), when we dug the potatoes or pulled the garlic. These are important things to know when growing food. So, here it is - our garden log. Please leave comments on our articles, and definitely pass on advice. We are learning to grow food, and finally are trying to get slightly serious about doing it successfully. So, welcome. Browse around. Leave comments. We can always learn something new.
