Here is the heuchera drift that I had written about in previous blog entries. My grandson Aidan helped me prepare the soil and plant them earlier today. It doesn’t look like much right now as these plants are just first year cuttings that haven’t had enough time to reach their full size. When they do … Continue reading Annuals, Biennials and Perennials →

I have been relegated to the gardening sidelines for a week or so due to a minor surgical procedure (all is well). So in the meantime I can write a blog about the vegetable garden. After all, that is supposed to be the main topic based on my blog’s title, although it seems I find … Continue reading Vegetable Garden Update 5/28 →

Jack of all trades, master of none. That’s me. I like to dabble in different pursuits, gardening being one and woodworking being another. For the last two years these two hobbies have intersected. Here are some of the garden structures I either made on my own or contributed to as a collaborator.. Last year I … Continue reading Garden Structures 2020 →

This blog entry will be mostly pictures I took this morning. The pictures were taken in our two vegetable gardens and in our shade garden. I used to call it the hosta garden, as that was what dominated. Since then I have added a number of plants that are either shade tolerant or grow best … Continue reading What’s Growing? May20th →

Many blog posts ago I wrote about seeing a drift of heuchera (choral bells) of many different colors at Keukenhoef Gardens in the Netherlands and my desire to try to make a drift similar to it. Lat fall I took several of my mature heuchera along with a few more I bought on sale at … Continue reading Creating a No-Dig Garden Bed For a Heuchera Drift →

Some gardeners are fortunate to have stone free, deep, sandy loam to grow their plants in. That is most certainly not the case here on our rocky ridge overlooking the Merrimack River valley. With ledge just inches below the surface of the ground in most places, the solution has been to create raised beds to … Continue reading A Tale of Two Compost Piles →

Three bags of seed potatoes from the Nashua Farmers Exchange. Potatoes belong to the nightshade family as do tomatoes, eggplant and many others. Just as tomatoes can be determinate or indeterminate, so too can potatoes. A determinate plant grows for a short season, produces it’s fruits, seeds or tubers and then dies. An indeterminate plant … Continue reading Potatoes Dig or No Dig + more →

Spring in New England is always an iffy thing. One day it will seem like summer is about to arrive and the next day it will seem like winter is about to come back witha a vengeance. For many of the vegetable crops to be grown in the gardens this year, the time has not … Continue reading The Vegetable Gardens →

This blog post will be mostly pictures of our seedlings with my typical droning on about one thing or another regarding those little splotches of green. Hmm. Is this isolation getting to me? Left to right. The European beech, started from a beechnut collected at the Dark Hedges in Northern Ireland in 2018 has broken … Continue reading Seedlings Update →

One of he more important things a flower and vegetable gardener can due is make and use mulch and compost on thier gardens. There are a variety of ways to go about this and I have my own system that works for me. In our larger vegetable garden with raised beds I place pine needles … Continue reading Mulch and Compost →