The old bin is a bit of a wreck Twenty years ago I used the plans for a three bin composter from the Crockett’s Victory Garden book. I used regular pine but I coated it with a copper based preservative. It has served me well over the years and I have no complaints. But now … Continue reading A New Compost Bin – Built To Last →

Snaefelsjokull volcano and glacier, Iceland. Having just returned from a week in the amazing country of Iceland, it is time to get my head back into New Hampshire gardening. That is not as easy as one might think. I keep thinking of the amazing scenes we saw there. There was boiling hot water bubbling up … Continue reading My Mind Is In Two Places →

Green Cal Wonder peppers, bartlet pears and Red Skin peppers This is the time of the growing season when long season crops finally begin to give us their fruit and vegetables. I like this new variety of red peppers better than the previous varieties. The Red Skin pepper plants are small, but produce a large … Continue reading End of August →

Our perennial garden is overgrown so it is time to dig, divide and replant. I have procrastinated and delayed attending to our overgrown perennial garden ... for years! Now it is full of invasive perennial weeds and overgrown, crowded clumps of flowers. Well, this morning I took the first step in a very large reclamation … Continue reading Transplanting Perennials →

It was a hot and humid late August afternoon as I wandered about the yard and gardens thinking about successes, failures and plans for next year. This is the first time I have grown trailing vinca. I think I will grow more of this next year. Last year when I grew these Heleniums from seed … Continue reading Musings About Fruit and Flower →

I started in June with a paver path and the begining of a fence and gate. Once this section of the fence was up I was able to get the annual garden planted next to it. After hammering holes into the ledge I cementend in PT posts. I attached wire fencing to pine boards that … Continue reading A Fence and Gate – This Summer’s Garden Project →

This year I decided to try a little comparison experiment with carrots. For what seems like forever, I have grown Ropyal Chantenay carrots in our garden. This year R. Chantenay foliage in the foreground is more upright. Envy in the background tends to flop a little bit more. I was lured by the description of … Continue reading Carrots →

Our Reliance Peach tree. We planted this in 1978. At first glance, the Reliance peach tree in this picture looks fairly normal. It is loaded down with peaches and has a bit of color with daylillys blooming underneath. But there is a problem. The peaches are small, but when they are ripe, and warm from … Continue reading Nothing Lasts Forever →

This paver path and edges are still under construction The greenhouse grden project continues through the heat of the summer. On the east side of the garden I have placed 3/4 ton of 3/4 inch base material (from the local quarry, to my my pickup truck, to the wheelbarrow, to the path). After leveling (sort … Continue reading A Work In Progress, (as always) →

Preparing to change this garden strip. The pot contains daffodil bulbs I had just dug up. Two years ago I planted white flowered daffodils and pink tulips along the front of the shed garden rock wall. Last year they put on a nice display. A nice combo Sometime between last spring and this spring the … Continue reading Moving Day For The Irises →