Tennessee Home Garden Variety Trials 2019

This year, we decided to participate in the 2019 Home Garden Variety Trials coordinated by the University of Tennessee. This…

Spring and Summer Garden Plan

Here is our plan right now. I might make some adjustments, but at least I think I have everything accounted…

After a lot of reading (Eliot Coleman’s books among others) and a little experimentation over the last couple of years,…

After a week off, we had a busy weekend in the garden. A late frost damaged a few plants so…

I had a few extra hours of vacation time to use, so I took the afternoon off. It was nice…

It looks like winter has finally left us, after one last frigid weekend. We covered everything but the very top…

We had another “hard freeze” last night. Mike and I covered all of the perennials and the garden beds with…

Late last summer a friend of mine gave me a pot of Gaura lindheimeri that he could not use in…

It’s a nice and sunny day here so I took advantage of it. I direct-sowed some marigold and Orach seeds…

This year, I had the urge to grow some orach. It is a Eurasian plant in the amaranth family, Atriplex hortensis…