ves's Hope garden

I had a lot of fun tonight with my camera in the garden. I can’t really judge the results….I admit I can’t even really frame shots with this camera….I point it in the right direction, hold it as still as I can, zoom in and out up to 5x, and push the button. The camera alwa...

Corn is up and growing. So are the weeds. The rototilled bed is considerably weedier than the double-dug bed, but corn also seems to be growing better overall. I need to get a tape measure and actually count and measure individual plants to quantify this…maybe tomorrow. In the meantime̷...

All the tomatoes are flowering and the Black Krim is starting to set fruit. This little fruit is actually about as big as my thumbnail.

I’ve been reading and dreaming about having a homestead-sized garden for years. During the few years that I lived in the country, I was working 60 hour weeks for a lab during the peak garden months (and usually laid off for a few weeks in February…February, in theory, is the time to p...