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A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Your Own Vegetables: Spring Edition

A Beginner's Guide to Growing Your Own Vegetables: Spring Edition

Do you think February is too soon to think about gardening? No! It’s not! You should be thinking about gardening now. Or last month. (Or really, always. You should always think about gardening.) I start my plants from seed because it lets me grow weird things they don’t sell as transplants–edamame, purple carrots, yellow strawberries.… Continue Reading →

Garden Update | Avoidance, Neglect & Pickled Radishes

Pickled Radishes

I have a bad habit of avoiding things. And the more I avoid things, the more I want to avoid things. Do you do that too? For example! Back when I was a librarian, I oversaw a whole section of the library. It was in a locked room, away from my office, and sometimes I’d… Continue Reading →

Garden Update | So many peppers and tomatoes!

Peppers - October 2012

Being a Midwestern girl, it still boggles my mind that I’m getting tomatoes and peppers from the garden in October here in North Carolina. I tried to leave them on the plants for as long as possible, but towards the end of the month, I decided it was time to pull out the remaining summer… Continue Reading →

Garden Update | So I cheated and bought transplants.

Mizuna - September 2012

I have no idea why buying transplants feels like cheating to me. I guess it’s like running a marathon and starting a few blocks from the finish line? But every weekend was either rainy or way too hot to be outside, so I didn’t get around to starting most of my fall seeds on time.… Continue Reading →

Garden Update | The Summer Harvest

Petit Gris de Rennes Melon [August 2012]

Have you noticed that I haven’t posted about my garden in a while? I decided to switch to doing my garden update posts once a month instead of once every two weeks. I felt like I wasn’t having much to say when I was posting more frequently. Oh hey, my tomato plant is flowering! And… Continue Reading →

Garden Update | Long Beans: Delicious But Slightly Creepy Looking

red_noodle_long_beans_feature

Am I the only one who feels slightly unsettled by long beans? They remind me of tentacles. Or creepy long fingernails. You see it too, right? I’m not crazy, right? …but hey, at least they taste good! So there’s that! I was just complaining about how I never get more than a dozen or so… Continue Reading →