pullingweeds's posterous http://pullingweeds.posterous.com Most recent posts at pullingweeds's posterous posterous.com Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:34:00 -0800 The Vegetable Garden http://pullingweeds.posterous.com/the-vegetable-garden http://pullingweeds.posterous.com/the-vegetable-garden

January11_046
This is my vegetable garden right now. It's cold and it's snowy in upstate new york and there really doesn't seem to be an end in sight. But, it is getting closer to seed starting time and with that comes the hope of spring and the excitement of a new garden. 

As I ordered my seeds a few weeks ago I remembered that I took a million photos of my seed starting process last year and then I realized I have a million more photos of the vegetable garden that I always meant to write a post about and never did. So here is a quick recap...

 

 

the very beginning.


they grow! and get hardened off in brooklyn. meanwhile, upstate...the dirt is delivered and the beds are made. the temporary fence.
Img_0364
the transplants go in and seeds are planted. the garden grows. and grows. (ugh...there were a lot more photos here but they disappeared! posterous!!)
September10_188
the reason we built that 7 foot fence.
Img_0769
the goods.

the strange tomato.

September10_195

tomatoes ripening on the window sill in brooklyn

September10_324

planning for next year by smothering the grass with dirt, cardboard and compost to have more beds.

the garden's last few days. the parsley made it into the thanksgiving meal!

overall the garden was very successful and pretty great for my first official garden (meaning not just a few pots on the patio in brooklyn). The lack of peppers was disappointing but i think i planted them too close to the tomatoes and the tomatoes just completely overtook them. So this year i hope to have a whole separate bed of peppers to go into bbq billy's crazy chili

i'll try a few new things this year but i'm mostly just sticking to what i know...i don't want to push my luck. Here's to spring coming quickly and happy gardens!

September10_190

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

]]>
http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1252234/ccf_avatar.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4wEYhQLjiYsF Lori Lovejoy-Fletcher LLF Lori Lovejoy-Fletcher