Planning
A New Direction
Saturday, September 20th, 2008Okay, this blog is about to go in a slightly different direction. It will not be your usual gardening blog, but more about what will happen if you add some high tech to your garden. The reason I got myself into this whole grow-your-own-food thing was that I felt I had to. It was the [...]
Butterfly Magnets
Monday, September 15th, 2008Tagetes are supposed to keep pests away, and that’s fine. But there are different types of tagetes and these are the tall ones. They have nearly taken over the raised beds so next year I’ll plant the short ones instead. They are beautiful though and draw a lot of butterflies into the garden.
My Garden Layout In 2008
Monday, September 1st, 2008(Click picture to enlarge)
This is an overview of my garden as it looks in 2008. There are five beds of which two are raised beds. The remaining three beds are raised bed wannabes meaning that the width is the same as the raised beds 120 cm (47 inches) and the soil has been dug deep. [...]
The Local Weather Conditions
Saturday, August 30th, 2008Just wanted to show you what the weather conditions are like on average in my area:
Usually we have a wet and windy fall and most of the snow falls in January and February. There’s not that much heat around here, so growing oranges are out of the question and melons are difficult. But we’re not [...]
Planning for 2009
Friday, August 29th, 2008I’m starting to take a look at what kinds of vegetables I’ll be growing in 2009. Most of the plants from 2008 I’ll also grow next year, since they all turned out quite well and brought us a lot of food on the table. As inspiration I’ve put together two lists for you to get [...]
Leek Companion Plants
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
After my encounter with the leek moth larva I would like to find out what kind of plants that leeks welcome as their neighbor, also known as companion plants. No, leeks are not supposed to look like the ones in the picture 
They’re infected by leek moth larva.
I couldn’t find any natural companion plants [...]
Squash Companion Plants
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008When I was searching for ways to cure my squash plant (it suffered from powdery mildew) I came across a tip on growing squash. It suggests that you plant radish near your squash and just let the radish bolt. This will somehow repel the Squash Borer. I’m lucky not to have any problems with Squash [...]
How To Get Rid Of Peach Leaf Curl
Friday, August 15th, 2008Okay, may I present “the pest of the day”. It seems like the pests just keep coming, but I guess that’s part of the game of growing food. Wouldn’t it be boring if everything just grew perfectly from day one? Well, maybe not exactly. Anyhow, the peach leaf curl disease arrived in the spring.
Peach leaf [...]
I Seriously Need To Dig Up More Lawn
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Here’s some inspiration from the Dervaes family from their urban homestead.
“I knew early on that we needed to settle the food problem, because if you can grow food, it’s empowering, it’s powerful, in fact I would say growing food is one of the most dangerous occupations on the face of this earth, because your are [...]
About F1 Seeds
Monday, August 4th, 2008If you ever wondered what’s behind the F1 label on some seeds, then here’s a little info:
F1 stands for Filial 1 as in first generation. An F1 seed is the child of inbred parents, where each parent has been self pollinated for 8 to 10 generations. This is a labour-intensive process that takes place in [...]
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