Dave's Square Foot Garden

The weather has been variable and it is chilly and breezy, more like March than late April weather. It has also been quite dry but still clo...

I took a photograph of my Meyer lemon tree in January and noted it lacked blossoms, which it produces in abundance each spring. Well, the ...

Here in Massachusetts zone 5b, the gardening season has begun. Most of the brassicas have sprouted and are tucked snugly under the grow l...

Holy cow, it’s almost May. Who knew that old saying, April comes in like a lamb and goes out like a lion, is actually true? The 8 feet of sn...

I have a seasonal tax prep job that is now over, so I can finally concentrate on gardening. A week of 10-12 hour days ended with a 14-hour m...

    My attempt to salvage my shallot growing season has somewhat succeeded. With poor germination rate and the suicidal tendencies of my ...

The Ambition shallots were sown two weeks ago . I used McEnroe organic potting mix, which has some compost in it, in a plastic tub. I figu...

  Planning for the 2015 garden actually started last year as I observed what worked in the current garden and what did not do well in my g...

  Ol’ 67 there is my “mail slot” where the postman delivers my seed orders. It is not mounted in my door, rather it is perched on and froz...

I documented the kickoff of my seed starting efforts back in March. The results turned out to be  less than satisfactory. I managed to kill...

I have not been posting lately but at least I have been gardening. It was a tough winter and a tough tax year (I worked 800 hours in 3 month...