Tag: leeks

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 […]

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 […]

We did this video blog in about as unprepared a way as you could imagine. No script, no thought, just aim the camera and shoot. You can see that a lot of care went into my wardrobe, too. We plan on doing more video, although this time of year isn’t the best for showing off […]

Warning: This post is about simple garden harvest routines, no secrets about how to grow 500-pound pumpkins or 7,000 cherry tomatoes on one vine, no inside information on turning a roughly 2% of an acre garden plot into a $100,000-a-year business. We start with carrots. Last weekend I harvested carrots from the garden, a little […]