August 4, 2011

Garden woes.

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…our garden has been under a full-on assault from every direction- the tomatoes have blight, the chipmunks, squirrels and bunny have been chowing down, there are mites in the hops and we also found a tomato hornworm on one of our non-blighted tomatoes. Here are a couple of pictures of our blighted tomatoes:

…next year, we are going to do a major shakeup of our plantings…everything will be rotated into new areas and hopefully we can get better results.

Below is the stunted Willamette hops…

…but alas, all is not lost. We got our first eggplant today…

…and our second crop of radishes are ready!

…the cayenne peppers are coming along.

…and the bees are enjoying the variety in our herb garden!

 

                 -Josh

 

May 26, 2011

The gardens are set.

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We finally got all of this year’s plants in the ground. With the recent inclement weather, it seems as though things are lagging behind a little. The radishes which we planted back in March are really just starting to mature and some of our earlier maturing plants are still rather small. We were able to make the Rare and Unusual Plant Sale at City Farm and found some great additions to our garden which were rounded out with some plants from the Goddard Park Farmer’s Market and seeds from Seeds of Change.  For this year, we broke up our plantings into three distinct zones:

Behind the house we have the herb area…we planted bergamont, shiso, hummingbird sage, pineapple sage, variagated sage, rosemary, bbq rosemary, chervil, flat parsley, curly parsley, cutting celery, marjoram, thyme, german thyme and lavender.

Out in our raised boxes we have some bush beans, sorrel, celery, tomato, peppers, eggplant, peas, radish and sunflowers.

The side yard, which gets the most sun hosts our tomato and basil plants.

…and we can’t forget about the hops! This year, I affixed a pulley at the top of the pole to allow us to lower the bine down for harvest…it seems as though some cones are ready before others, so now we can selectively harvest the mature cones without cutting down the whole plant.

                                         -Josh

 

April 9, 2011

Here come the radishes…

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There is finally some activity out in our garden (unlike this blog recently…or the Red Sox!)…the radishes which we planted in our raised bed three weeks ago have broken ground and are starting reach skyward. Hopefully winter has finally left and we can get on with Spring for good…now what to do with those Sox (and we’ll promise to post more!) ?

                           -Josh

 

June 6, 2009

Our Garden

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We have lots of things growing in the garden – I’m (this is Ingrid) very excited. On the left is one of our tomato plants – we have four – and on the right the radishes. I pulled one out of the ground the other day and they aren’t ready yet. My friend Toby told me about a dish he and his wife Kristen had at Blue Hill in NYC last year – fresh whole radishes with a drizzle of balsamic vinegar and a little sea salt – I can’t wait to try it out with our radishes!

 

March 27, 2009

This Year’s Garden

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So we have started thinking about this year’s garden (this is Ingrid writing). Since we want to do 100% 100 mile diet for three months – August, September and 1 in the winter – we want to make sure that we plan well in advance. We cleaned out and added compost to 3 areas so far. One area will be for tomato, eggplant, and pepper plants. One will be for herbs and red onions. The third will be for hops – yes, hops. Josh ordered Willamette and Cascade hops from Basement Brew-Haus – a local home brew supply store in Providence. Since Josh has started brewing beer in addition to the cider, we’re going to try hops – we don’t have enough land for the barley or wheat! It’ll be interesting to see how the hops grow.

Back to the gardens. We still need to put together a lettuce, spinach, kale bed. Last year we made a fair amount of salads from our own lettuce. During the 100 mile diet, we use the lettuce like bread – it reminds me of a dish my friend Kristi used to love from PF Chang’s.

We’ll get most of our plants from the Goddard State Park farmers market and The Good Earth. We had good luck with the plants from both places last year. The only plants that didn’t do well last year were the ones I tried to grow from seeds – that’s how we ended up with leeks the size of pencils!

We’ll keep everyone updated on the garden and what we really end up planting.

 

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