Just for the sake of trying to see the good among the rubble of my particularly challenging gardening year, I present the following series of photos of stuff that does not suck about my garden right now.  Please enjoy, and if possible, go out and look for things that don’t suck in your own.

Garlic [...]

Nearly anyone you ask will tell you: “Sow carrot seeds directly into the garden. You can’t transplant them.” Nearly anyone, but not everyone. For example, in John Jeavons’ book, How to Grow More Vegetables…, he encourages the reader to plant carrot seed indoors and transplant them outdoors some weeks later. He [...]

I don’t have the heart to do the big pestilence post that I’d planned, so I’ll just say that if this weather does not shape up soon, I’m going to just jackhammer a hole into the floor of my greenhouse and plan on growing everything in there… under artificial lighting…

I could barely feel my fingers [...]

Today, I happened across an article about how to make aerated compost tea.  You get a bucket, an air pump, some compost, water… blah blah blah, and pretty soon you’ve got this lovely bucket of disease-preventing, nutrient-rich foliar spray!  That’s awesome, I thought!  I’ll do that!

As is my style, though, I thought I’d do a [...]