Episode-190- Reap What I Sow – Peas And Turnips

This is a follow up to Episode-158- where I showed how I was getting my spring plantings under way. I sowed turnip and snap pea seeds on March 30 and I started picking some of the rewards of my labor for two weeks. Today's pickings were the best so and it is nice to see 10 weeks of waiting patiently for these "early" vegetables come to a nice bounty. The turnips were sowed too close together and...

Episode-158- Start Spring Gardening Now

It's time to begin gardening now. The winter has been long and cold but it is now officially spring and March 30 was a fine day to begin to begin transplanting Swiss chard, parsley and endive. I also had to delay sowing peas radish until yesterday due to the snow earlier this week. Rain was forecast for today so there were no more excuses left to delay the necessary and fun work of doing these...

Harvest

Edamame Man 9-30-11 As you can see we are still harvesting and today we feast on edamame Japanese style. However, this weekend's cold rains may have brought an early end to the summer harvests. Not to worry though as the fall gardening includes diakon radish, beets, spinach and endive. Check out more of the 2011 harvests at Picasa Videos Gardening Planting Times

Garden Harvests and Blooms

I wanted to add in something to accompany the video and production pictures to help keep track of how the gardens are producing. Already finished until next year or the fall are; spinach, loose leaf lettuce, radishes and bulb onions. If you're not aware I grow all of our flowers and vegetables from seed and I get almost all of them from One of the best seed exchange services in the business and...

Episode-6- Earthquake and Tsunami. What’s Going on in Japan?

         Gardening chores Starting basil and pea seeds          Fixing up the grow light area          Grow Light set-up PowerPoint Home Chores Helping my daughter build a beehive for her school insect project: A backyard beehive of course!      Preparing packages to send to Japan     What’s going on in Japan? One of world's largest concrete pumps is being...