Gardening
Meyer Lemon Giveaway Winner and Garden Update
We have a winner! Sometimes it pays to be first… Using www.random.org the winner of the Meyer Lemons is Johanna who said, “My sister helped me start a garden last year, and I loved having so much fresh produce right…
Getting Ready to Garden & Meyer Lemon Giveaway
Weekends like this remind me how truly blessed those of us are who live in Southern California. Say what you will about traffic or smog, you really can’t beat the weather. It was almost 80 degrees on the first day…
Quick Mid-Summer Garden Update
This is 2 day’s haul from the garden last week. In the photo are 4 different types of tomatoes, lemon cucumbers, an eggplant, a zucchini, and a cucumber. Was the no-dig method successful? Yes, I think so. Did it work for everything…
How to Make Fresh Tomato Soup
How to make homemade tomato soup from fresh ripe tomatoes.
Garden Update; The World’s Most Expensive Tomato
Yesterday we ate the World’s Most Expensive Tomato. Ok, not really, but sometimes gardening feels that way, doesn’t it? When you factor in what was spent on building the raised beds, filling them with hay, alfalfa, manure and compost, buying the…
Garden update; the Octopus in my Garden
Today we finished the irrigation project. Every plant now has an ugly black rubber tube leading to a low-flow drip irrigation end. It will save water and keep me from having to lug the hose from plant to plant. But…
Garden Update; Still Battling the Monsters
We are still fighting the good fight against the raccoons. They tear down my fence, I repair it. I sprinkle pepper everywhere, they use it to season the onions they steal from my garden. I buy “Critter-Repellent” which contains the…
The Ongoing Saga of the Monsters in My Garden
I have finally figured out what the “Little Monsters” are in my garden. Raccoons. The clue was the single footprint on the side wall of one of my raised beds. Well, the footprint, holes dug into the garden 8″ deep,…
