The Square Foot Garden Blog

Organic Gardening - Pros & Cons & Merry Christmas!!

plantgirl — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:00:26 +0000

Thought I’d update again - my sfg boxes are buried in snow but several birds are still feeding from the remnants of the sunflowers. My roses are skeletal and wild looking. Christmas was wonderful and went by way too fast!!! My experience with organic gardening this year was a learning experience. I found I like it [...]

Garden Plans for 2009

plantgirl — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:19:51 +0000

It’s been forever since I updated … grr … I was reminiscing about strawberries a few days ago - you know, the real kind. The family went to a local chocolate shop - V Chocolates, my favorite, and got some chocolate covered strawberries. The chocolate was amazing, rich, belgian chocolate - but the strawberry was just [...]

Eggs!!!

plantgirl — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:01:08 +0000

I had pretty much resigned myself to the fact that the hens hadn’t laid eggs yet, and probably wouldn’t through the winter - when I heard a strange noise coming from their coop. We had stopped checking every day - anyways I looked in their little laying boxes - 11 perfect medium brown eggs!!! I [...]

Saving the Environment - small & large steps

plantgirl — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:25:44 +0000

At our last family party we started talking about recycling. My bro-in-law said it uses more energy to recycle than to throw stuff out. Something about a carbon footprint? OK, so I’m not as well versed in all this stuff as alot of people - but I still think recycling is a step in the [...]

Finally! A second to blog!!

plantgirl — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:57:55 +0000

I started working at home a few weeks ago and am finally learning how to juggle it with everything else I have to do. So there is finally a second or two to blog about my garden! Half the “bees” in my backyard swarming around the door are yellow jackets. Everyone knows I grew up in [...]

Busy bees one too many

plantgirl — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:06:39 +0000

As much as I love having bees flourishing in my garden, they are starting to wear out their welcome. With the garden right by the back door and having to leave the door open to be able to watch my 2 year old DD1, the bees are becoming a nuisance. Two flew in today in [...]

Visiting the Farmer’s Market

plantgirl — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:40:23 +0000

I visited the Farmer’s Market last night and bought a ton of supersweet cherry tomatoes, crookneck squash, tiny zucchini, fresh corn, and super yummy peaches. Tonight I made fritters cooked in olive oil from the tomatoes and zucchini and from store bought fresh dill (ouch was it expensive but worth it!) and mint from my [...]

Beet Harvest and the Chicken Wynn

plantgirl — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:37:50 +0000

I harvested these beets last night and washed them while watching “Nim’s Island.” It’s a cute movie though it lost my attention 3/4 of the way through. These beets turned out alot better than my last harvest - I think because of the ladybugs doing bad bug control. Only some of the leaves had been [...]

Chickens!

plantgirl — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:21:28 +0000

2 nights ago we found a local ad for chickens - and took the plunge! The above not so good pic is of the 6 hens I bought from a local lady downsizing her flock - I also had 2 roosters (conditional to get the nicer hens) but had to give ‘em away for free [...]

Green Tomatoes

plantgirl — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:34:29 +0000

Today my 2 year old picked a whopping 3 tomatoes that were still green. We tried explaining that we don’t pick the “baby tomatoes” - they don’t taste good. When I caught her she got a cute mischievous look on her face and teasingly reached for an almost ripe one - then ran away giggling. [...]