November in Vermont is a gray, wet month. The fall foliage has come and gone and we’ve entered into what my husband calls “stick season”! I thought you might like to see some of the beautiful gardens we enjoyed on our recent trip to the west coast! Our first week was spent in Portland, Oregon.Continue reading “West Coast Gardens – Portland, OR”
Category Archives: Gardening
My Garden: How Long Are Seeds Viable?
Here in Vermont my gardening season is over. I still have some a lot of clean up to do and a few blueberries still left to pick but everything else is pretty much finished. Now is a good time to go through your seeds and figure out which ones you may want to re-order. WhatContinue reading “My Garden: How Long Are Seeds Viable?”
My Garden: Planting Bulbs
The gardening season may be winding down but there are still chores to be done. I need to cut back my hosts, day lilies and iris. I also need to put the tomato cages and hoses away in the barn along with the wheelbarrows. Here in the northeast fall is also the time of yearContinue reading “My Garden: Planting Bulbs”
How to Extend Your Growing Season
Yesterday was a cold rainy day here. I had plans to get out and photograph what things look like around here but it was pretty wet. Instead I’m going to re-post one of my original posts from three years ago! I imagine most of you have not read it! Our growing season in Vermont isContinue reading “How to Extend Your Growing Season”
My Garden: September Clean Up & Planting Garlic
It’s not fall yet on the calendar but it sure feels like it. Our nights are getting chilly and the forecast for this week is for cooler days too! I don’t mind as I feel much more invigorated when the days are cooler. I seem to get a lot more done outside. One of theContinue reading “My Garden: September Clean Up & Planting Garlic”
September in the Garden
Seems like I blinked and the summer flew by! After several days of July like weather this morning is nice and cool. I love the end of summer days when it is warm and sunny during the day but cool at night. Everywhere I look things are flowering, that last ditch effort to produce seedsContinue reading “September in the Garden”
My Garden: Tomato Harvest
My garden hasn’t done extremely well this year and my tomatoes are not producing a huge crop. However I picked enough the other day to make some Roasted Tomato Sauce, which we use on our homemade pizza! I like this recipe as you only need 4 pounds of tomatoes and they can be any type.Continue reading “My Garden: Tomato Harvest”
My Garden: Growing a Laurus nobilis “Sweet Bay”
A year a go a friend of mine gave me a gift of a few bay leaves and told me she was growing her own bay plant in her living room! I’m always interested in what I can grow myself and the thought of growing my own bay leaves was intriguing! I found that LogeesContinue reading “My Garden: Growing a Laurus nobilis “Sweet Bay””
My Garden: Braiding Garlic
You may remember the abundant garlic harvest I had a few weeks ago. I finally got around to braiding it. I love the way braided garlic looks plus I can hang it in our garage for the winter and it does just fine. Our garage is actually heated so it stays cool but doesn’t freeze.Continue reading “My Garden: Braiding Garlic”
August’s Garden
This has been a hard summer for my garden, can only blame it on neglect. Neglect on my part. We’ve been away too many weekends this summer and you can tell when you look at my garden. I mentioned before that we were transitioning to raised beds. I was thinking of all the benefits ofContinue reading “August’s Garden”
Nancy on the Home Front 