Enjoy the pictures of my garden and my harvest.
Archive for the ‘Gardening’ Category
21 Jun
Swiss Chard and then everything else
This was what I picked about a week ago. 1 head of lettuce, 2 radishes, a bunch of chard, a bunch of garlic onions, and some basil.
This was the chard as I was cooking it the night I harvested it.
The swiss chard in our garden is doing great. Big beautiful shiny leaves, I personlly think it is [...]
3 Jun
Container garden pics.
These are some recent pictures of my lettuce and basil that are growing in containers out in back of my building. The lettuce is coming along really well in fact we ate some today for lunch. The basil has been slow but is getting there, it won’t be able to be eaten for awhile [...]
27 May
Homemade garden goodness
This is a recipe that was given to me by a lovely woman that gardens in the same community garden as I do. I hope you enjoy it as I have, on my salads!
Lavendar colored chive vinegar
The flowers that are so pretty on top of the chive plants that so many [...]
19 May
My little gardeners
This morning it was beautiful so around 10am I decided to take the kids to our garden plot to water the plants and to plant the carrots. We had a blast, they are such great helpers! We bought a few supplies before heading to the garden, we got: peat moss, mushroom compost, and mulch.
The [...]
9 May
container gardening and animal rescue
Lettuce is sooo good when it is grow at home, and I love having fresh greens so I grow lettuce in containers. My container gardens sit in the courtyard of my condo building on the concrete. I planted my lettuce seeds about a week and half ago and already I have tons of little sprouts.
I [...]
6 May
In goes the garlic
Yesterday we planted elephant garlic and purple garlic in the garden as well as asparagus. I am very excited to be planting things I have never planted before.
The kids ran around barefoot and happy for most of the time. Ewan dug holes, searched for worms and planted flower seeds with his friend Merry while [...]
2 May
Gardening does a body good.
Today was the spring work day at the community garden I belong to. I joined the garden club last year and it has been great, I have a plot and my friend Deb also has a plot and we share them. Our plots are quite big too, 10′ by 20′. We are able to grow [...]
27 May
Garden update
How is my garden growing, well that is a very good question. The weather got cold after I transplanted my plants and many of them died:(. Some of the plants did hold on and are still growing, others had to be started all over again. The next logical step was to start the new plants [...]
12 May
Urban gardener??
Living in Chicago, in a condo, with a concrete courtyard out back does not really lend itself to gardening at least not in the traditional way. To garden in an urban setting you have to be a little more creative and perhaps a little more diligent. For as long as I have lived in my [...]
