The last year has just flown by. On The Home Front has been live for over a year now. To celebrate there will be a giveaway each week during the month of October. Be sure to go to the contest page and enter! After looking through many of the popular garden posts from the last year, IContinue reading “My Garden: Homemade Seed Tape Revisited”
Category Archives: Gardening
My Garden: Late-Bearing Blueberries
Late season blueberries are a great way to extend your blueberry production. We have a total of ten bushes, most of which we’ve had for four years. When we purchased the bushes we made sure that we had a selection that would produce the entire summer. As a result we have several early bearing bushes,Continue reading “My Garden: Late-Bearing Blueberries”
My Garden: September Update
Labor Day has passed and there are signs of fall everywhere. The leaves are changing, the nights are colder, and it won’t be long before frost touches the valleys and hilltops of Vermont. My garden did very well in some areas and not so well in others. We had a rather hot and dry summer,Continue reading “My Garden: September Update”
My Garden: Potato Bucket Yield
How many of you remember that I planted my potatoes in buckets this year? The great potato experiment! This past weekend I harvested my potatoes. Was it a success? I did not have the five-pound yield per bucket that some folks claimed I might get but I did get about a pound of potatoes perContinue reading “My Garden: Potato Bucket Yield”
My Garden: What Can You Compost?
I receive a lot of questions regarding composting; one common question is “What can I compost?” Earlier this summer we built a compost bin out of pallets. It’s been wonderful to have such a large 3-bin composter. For our bin we’ve been layering weeds from the garden, bedding from our chickens and adding manure as weContinue reading “My Garden: What Can You Compost?”
My Garden: Growing Rice in Vermont?
It’s the time of the month when I attend my seed saving class. This class is so enjoyable and I always come away having learned something! This August class focused on harvest of seeds. Sylvia had several varieties of lettuce, which had gone to seed. She is very careful and harvests the seedpods when theyContinue reading “My Garden: Growing Rice in Vermont?”
My Garden: Pesky Pests
I would love to have a perfect garden, one that never had weeds or pests! However that is not the case, I have more than enough weeds to keep me busy pulling everyday and many varieties of pests. The most common variety found in my garden right now is the Japanese beetle. Japanese Beetles haveContinue reading “My Garden: Pesky Pests”
My Garden: Abundant Garlic!
Last fall I planted a bed of garlic. It had been years since I’d planted garlic but we use garlic all the time and I was hoping for a good harvest. I kept the bed weeded and watered. I read up on garlic, how to grow it, when to harvest and how to dry it.Continue reading “My Garden: Abundant Garlic!”
My Garden: Protecting Our Blueberries
We have ten blueberry bushes planted at one end of our vegetable garden. Some of the bushes are early-bearing; some mid-season and some are late-bearing. As a result once the berries start turning blue we have ripe berries for quite a long time! I think blueberries are my favorite fruit and I just love havingContinue reading “My Garden: Protecting Our Blueberries”
My Garden: Sylvia’s Seed Saving Class #3
Attending the seed saving class is one of the highlights of the month for me. Sylvia’s gardens are always picture perfect and it’s amazing to see the difference one month makes in her gardens. Of course my gardens change as well, but since I’m in them everyday I don’t see it so clearly. TheContinue reading “My Garden: Sylvia’s Seed Saving Class #3”
Nancy on the Home Front 