Archive for the 'Vegetable Garden' Category

20 Mar

Michelle Obama is going to be planting a garden at the White House, and from what I hear, it is going to be a garden with vegetables, herbs, and perhaps some fruit.  The garden will be near the fountain on the south lawn, and children from a local DC school will join her to break [...]

16 Mar

Tomatoes are not hard to grow, even in difficult soil you will get something, but the richer the soil, the more plentiful the harvest. We have a relatively short growing season here, and I like quick results, so for the past few years have been growing grape or cherry tomatoes. I only plant 3-4 plants [...]

16 Mar

It’s actually spring-like today, a little cloudy, but in the 50′s, which is nice…and it’s most definitely time to be planning the garden.  Even though I do a garden blog and like to garden, I must admit that I like to grow things that aren’t to hard to maintain.  The years of being challenged by [...]

09 Jan

Over the past couple of years, our town has formed a sustainable gardening group, and have taken a plot of unused land in our Township, and turned it into something useful and beautiful.  There is also a beautiful “island” of flowers in the middle of the traffic light interchange in the middle of our town [...]

17 Oct

How many of you grew corn in your vegetable gardens this year?  I didn’t have room to plant any, but noticed it in the gardens of some of my neighbors. We love our corn here in New Jersey, it’s simply called “Jersey Corn”, but unfortunately the season for fresh corn is over now. In fact, [...]