Looks great. I wish my husband would eat aspargus, because I like it a lot. Still though, even if I did have an asparagus bed, I could always sell the excess.
Bubble n squeak inspired me to make a cabbage, carrot, onion and garlic fry up. Nomnomnom...
As far as varieties, I've seen Dutch Cream, Kennebec, Anya, Pink Eye, some kind of purple potato, a large red potato, and Maris Piper I think. I'd love to grow tons of potatoes, but just don't have the...
I've had problems with whitefly, caterpillars, and powdery mildew, but never blight (thankfully). My toms were prone to splitting though (hot summer, and trying to keep everything watered well did it, I suspect).
We had Grosse Lisse tomatoes growing. Supposedly they're a medium sized one, but...
Snow peas for sure. I'm growing snow peas and alderman climbing peas. They've survived well throguh winter, but you want to make sure yo tie them up for extra support if you have high winds. We do, and several of mine fell over and broke off.
My Dad used to till our garden, rake it into various hills and trenches according to what were were going to plant, and then draped the lot with a large sheet of black plastic. We pressed it down carefully. In the trenches, we poked many small holes. In the hill tops, we cut spaces for the...
First of all, I should say I wandered over here from Sufficient Self, so I'm probably not a stranger to some of you here.
I am an American transplant, living and loving my home in Tasmania (the little green island off the southern tip of Australia's mainland). I married my man, and moved from...