Get excited: it's motherf'ing lettuce week. Our garden has exploded within the last two weeks: the photo on the left was taken on May 13th, the one on the right on May 27th. Now it's time to start eating the bounty. The lettuce/kale/spinach in particular needs to be consumed before it goes to seed. So, [...]
Sometimes the interwebs just do you wrong, ya know? Take, for example, the Burpee order I placed weeks ago. Shipping live plants didn't seem risky to me considering that baby chicks are shipped via USPS all the time. But these vegetables were doomed (the same fate many baby chicks face as well, I suppose). They [...]
Breaking garden news! The crime spree has ended thanks to this sweet net situation I rigged up. A friend suggested that my vegetable predator could very well be birds (instead of or in addition to rabbits), and seeing as how that stray cat had turned the bed into its litter box (I scooped out the [...]
I'm very sorry to make this blog an all-garden all-the-time affair, but nature is really working against me here. Witness: HAIL. Let's zoom in. To add insult to injury, I looked out the window this morning at the precise moment a stray cat dumped out and covered its tracks by digging in the square of [...]
The rabbit finished off the spinach entirely and moved on to the heads of lettuce. Unacceptable! Jarrod and I will be out of town this weekend and, at the rate of the rabbit's consumption, there would be nothing left in the garden by the time we returned. So, a short-term quick-fix was in order. I [...]
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