Fingerling Radishes on Counter They may not seem like much but they are a lot to me: our first radishes of the season (minus the one I...

Newly Planated Garden With Hay Mulch It's official - our garden is now fully planted (mainly due to Ed's hard work). While I planted 3...

As things started to green up this spring, I was anxious to see if the lavender I planted last year survived the winter. The good news...

Like most gardeners, our spring and summer are spent fighting a wide variety of weeds. Over the years, we have employed several methods...

Spring usually brings two large jobs. One is fairly fun, which is getting the garden planted. The second, less enjoyable job, is mucking...

Although it is still a little cool out, we have begun planting for the 2025 garden season. Last weekend, Maggie planted peas, carrots,...

First Of The Season Asparagus Poking Through In The Garden Today is April 29th here in SE WI. I'm not sure we've ever had asparagus poke...

Older Seed Starts On Garden Shelves In Front of Window Some of our seed starts have gotten too big for their initial home. (We start our...

One project that I was able to squeeze in was inoculating some logs for shiitake mushrooms. I cut these logs back in December, so I only...

Four Bales of Last Year's Hay (Grass Really) - No Chemicals While we did get woodchips delivered last fall for the garden, I've been...

Although we had snow today, we have begun our garden for the year! One of the challenges of gardening year after year is that the chores...

With the new year comes a new garden plan. We have reached the point where the scars, trials, and tribulations from last year's garden...

We finally completed one of the hardest tasks of the year, which is getting the gardens ready for winter. Usually, we have this completed...

We are at the mid-point of closing down the garden for winter. We are spreading a giant piles of woodchips across the beds, mucking out...

As summer winds down, we will be taking stock of our Year of the Perennials. First up is our attempt at growing lavender. Like many of...

My neighbor gave me some tomatoes today and I'm looking forward to making tomato sandwiches as my main sustenance for the next week or so....

"Back to Eden" gardening is the long-term goal for our garden (my perspective). The purported benefits of the gardening method almost...

Last week, we harvested our garlic. We succession-plant bush beans, which was one of this weekend's tasks. The variety we plant mature in...

We have a few side projects going on this summer. These are fun little things we are trying on a small scale, to see how they may fit...

This picture of our garden was taken a week ago on July 6. We planted this garden between May 31 and June 7. With all of the rain we've...