Hardneck garlic is the garden crop that keep giving. About a month before you pull the bulbs you get a lovely, loopy treat called a garlic scape. If you grow your own garlic you’ll be drowning them, if not you’ll have to check out a farmers market or a farm stand in the late spring […]
Garlic is the only non-perennial constant in my garden. I’ve skipped one year in the last 10 and I felt like something was missing the entire time. Garlic isn’t grown like most of the crops. You start out in the fall and finish up in the early summer. If you plant hardneck garlic you even […]
The snow has been gone for a few weeks but it very well may come back, our last frost date in Central New York is May 12th. It’s tradition to hit the greenhouses for Mother’s day. But my gardener brain is starting to wake up like that garlic I planted way back in December. I […]
My greatest homesteading sin is that I don’t save seeds. Regardless of how you get into the homesteading lifestyle, whether it’s through keeping chickens or growing your own tomatoes or baking your own bread there is always a drive towards self sufficiency or need to survive and thrive on your own with no outside help. […]
There are a lot of emotions tied to my gardens, maybe because I have so many (too many?) of them. I have a large vegetable garden, a small orchard, half an herb garden and too many flower beds to mention. They represent a lot of hard work and in the end they offer up much […]
