Tag: kale

Did you know that broccoli was invented by human beings? Not that it required cloning or chemicals or GMOs or such but if you start with wild kale and select traits you want, like larger, tastier flower buds you encourage it. And so on. Do this long enough and you’ll have broccoli. Or just drive […]

View Part I here. Still, no rain. I can’t recall a time when we’ve gone so long without rain. Nor can I recall a time when it’s been so hot. A few days ago I drove several miles away from Lake Michigan. The temperature was 103º F. I believe this is the highest natural temperature […]

IF we had these 90° temperatures, day after day after day, along with substantial rainfall, this could be an ideal growing season. Fact is, we have had no rain for weeks and no rain in sight for the future forecast. With the rain barrels empty, we are watering, watering, watering with village water from the […]

  On April 19 I speculated that the second garden cam would be up and running within a week. It’s turned out to be closer to two weeks, but now everything is working well. As with any project, or any part of a project, you might start with a general idea and then alter it […]

I continue to do experiments with stretching the garden season to year-round. If I can grow greens continually, there will be no reason to freeze greens. My plans include adding more cold frames and perhaps a miniature hoop house. In addition to the kale and leeks and lettuce and spinach that made it through the […]

“I’m strong to the finish ’cause I eats me spinach, I’m Popeye the Sailor Man …” “I’m hearty and hale ’cause I eats me kale, I’m Eno the Guru Man …” I eats me spinach, too, and me broccoli, me Swiss chard, me lettuce, me Chinese cabbage, me pak choi, and me other greens, but […]

We spend time in the summer growing produce and then spend time in the winter cooking it up and eating it. Not a bad arrangement. There are folks willing to point out that a person would do better spending the time earning money and spending the money at the grocery store. No matter how you […]

The rewards of the garden in October are multiple. There’s the accounting of the quantitative results, either in pounds of tomatoes or quarts canned. There’s an accounting of the qualitative results as well, either a given crop was good or not so good, a lot or a few, hardy or weak, tasty or bland. There […]