In among the Lettuces under kitchen window I've found half a dozen young plants that look like Tomatoes. They've come up at the same...

I acquired a few plants from someone on craigslist who was dividing hers- some low-growing and tall phlox. I put the tall one in the back ne...

Torrents of rain today, then bouts of sunshine. It's starting to get humid. Another Cantaloupe seedling sprouting indoors. Yesterday dau...

I wasn't going to actually go out into the garden today, until I looked at the weather and realized this will be the clearest day all we...

Chard The indoor planting is going well. Every section of the egg carton has several Chard seedlings, getting taller every day (though I ...

Surprised and very happy that the seeds planted indoors in my improvised trays are all beginning to sprout! Almost all the Broccoli and Char...

The slug and pill bug population seems to be under control now- I get a good amount of them in the beer traps each night, and since the slug...

Thrilled today to find the Pumpkin seedlings coming up, and half a dozen Green Beans! I should have been more patient. I quickly covered the...

Turned the pile today. Bottom of it all dark and steaming, top was heaps of grass clippings, bush trimmings and weeds, still green. Mixed it...

The corn is sprouting! And getting chewed on. Cleared away all the leaf litter and helicopter seeds around there and put out more slug beer-...

More work today. First rescued some more Sunflor seedlings- a few of the second planting two came up in the same spot, so I separated them, ...

Yesterday we ate our first harvest- Lettuce! I thought some Radishes would be ready, too- but the roots are just barely beginning to swell....

I've heard that Fennel attracts butterflies, so I moved a plant that always got mowed over, into the garden next to another one. They...

Fed the Beets today. Mulched the baby Carrots with saved coffee grounds. Got a handful of pill bugs and half dozen slugs in the beer. Need t...

Weeding and planting today. Put in Marigolds all along edges where I could, found a spot to plant Pumpkins, replanted the Green Bean patch, ...

Double measures last night- doused all the plants in soapy dishwater and put out beer- in six different spots. All but one of the dishes cau...

I gathered up all the grass clipping mulch had put down between the rows of lettuce, chard and broccoli and there were all the bugs undernea...

I'm feeling discouraged about the garden. Some things are going well- the garlics are incredibly healthy, the potatoes are coming up str...

Planted more today. Watermelon and Corn in the new space, then these to fill in gaps in the other areas: Radish, Simpson Lettuce, Romaine L...

Took advantage of this morning's respite from rain (it poured again this afternoon) to work in garden, even though soil muddy. The book ...