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My Shady Gardening Plans

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Dirt to Dinner

This ever-expanding patch of nettles is growing in my back garden in the ‘dappled shade’ that it supposedly likes. My husband swears he won’t be eating it because we don’t really know what it is, since it just turned up there, in the middle of what was once a lawn. But they look like nettles, they certainly sting like nettles, and they grow right where nettles are supposed to grow, so I’m making them into a cream soup. Just as soon as I can figure out when the right time to harvest nettles happens to be.

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There Are Flowers in My Vegetables

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Dirt to Dinner

Yesterday I found a bee on the bright yellow flowers of a Chinese asparagus plant that had gone prematurely senile in it’s pot after our unexpected January heat wave. I whispered to the bee that we have lots more interesting delights coming for it this spring.

Filed under: Growing, Learning, Planting | Tagged: borage, companion planting, cosmos, Dirt to Dinner, family food gardens, growing food, growing vegetables, kitchen garden, marigolds | 1 Comment »

Divide and Germinate: Space Planning in the Garden

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Dirt to Dinner

We grazed over at least four square feet of pea vines to get a family ‘serving’ for a day. In good weather, three or four days later, there were enough new peas to pick those same plants again. So, each four square feet of snap peas will give us two ‘servings’ a week. If we’d like twice that I better put in eight square feet of snap peas, maybe ten to allow for slug damage would be safer. Add to that a couple square feet of snow peas and another four square feet of Alderman shelling peas and we’re up to sixteen square feet of peas.

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The December Garden

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Dirt to Dinner

If you had to eat out of the garden right now in mid-December, you could have spinach, kale, chard, arugula, lettuce, green onions, a couple snap or snow peas, mustard greens, broccoli, cabbage (the loose leaf kinds anyway), rutabagas, turnip greens, chicory, sorrel, radishes, rosemary or thyme, and tomatoes. Seriously. I have tomato plants flowering and setting fruit, in December.

Filed under: Cooking, Growing, Harvesting, Learning, Planning, Planting | Tagged: Bolivian sunroot, Glacier tomatoes, grow your own food, growing food, growing vegetables, growing yacon tubers, urban homesteading, winter garden, winter vegetables | Leave a Comment »

What I’m Doing Differently Since Taking “Edible Gardening”

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Dirt to Dinner

First, and perhaps most revealing, I’ll be growing–am already growing–a lot more food in the same garden space that I started with. Not only do I understand inter-cropping and plant rotations better, but plant spacing makes a lot more sense to me and I’ll be using a lot less of it in between my plants,

Filed under: Curriculum, Learning, Planning, Planting | Tagged: Common Ground Garden Supply, Edible gardening, grow biointensive, Grow More Vegetables, growing cover crops, growing food, growing vegetables, seed-to-table, Slow Food | 2 Comments »

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