Dave's Square Foot Garden

  The Costata Romanesco is out-producing Dunja about 3 to 1. Of course it is cheating by trying to shade out its neighbor. It really nee...

    It seemed like I tried to avoid the garden last week, but a lot happened despite that. Maybe I am just really efficient when I do vis...

  What a winter! Historic snow amounts and low temperatures. We have had 7 feet of snow in about three weeks (a foot of that this weekend)...

  The Sunburst squash is continuing to produce a good supply of sunny yellow patty pans, but you wonder if it was named after the color ...

This week was a little different than usual. I did harvest the usual cukes, beans, and zucchini (photos at the end), but the garden is get...

It’s definitely getting to be Fall. The days are cooler and the nights are colder.There are other signs around. Late August is when the garl...

Last week’s temperatures were more moderate but the humidity was awful, with dew points in the 70s. The air was so saturated that by the end...

Not much to show this week. Tuesday was busy and by Wednesday I had some stomach bug that put me out of action for three days. First got to ...

Squash vine borers (SVB) are larvae of the SVB moth that bore into the stems of cucurbits (squash, cucumbers, melons) and work their way up ...

It has been two weeks since my heavy planting effort on May 26-27, the Memorial Day weekend. All of the transplants survived and are actuall...

After the lethal weather of last week (108°F on back porch in the shade), the weather has moderated. We had thunderstorms on Saturday which ...

Because of the time taken to build and fill the beds and our trip to St. Louis,the garden was planted fairly late this year. Then add in ...

This is a list of what I planted in the eight raised beds and in the strip of garden allotted to tomatoes. Box 1 (3x6) 1 zucchini Raven ...