Life In The Slow Lane
Posted in Gardening on Dec 15th, 2009
The fall garden is still giving us plenty to eat this year, even after several nights with the low temps dipping into the teens. The growth of everything has pretty much slowed to a crawl, but that’s to be expected with the combination of short days and cold temperatures.
These komatsuna greens were growing unprotected in [...]
Posted in Gardening on Nov 29th, 2009
Frost has finally nipped the peppers and eggplants in our vegetable garden. I harvested the last peppers this week just before Thanksgiving, while the eggplants stopped producing several weeks ago. We are having some Giant Marconi and Yummy peppers on our salads today for lunch. The ample rains this year have been kind to the many [...]
Posted in Gardening on Nov 19th, 2009
I’ve been a little under the weather this week (I’ll spare you the gory details) but the veggie garden goes on. We’ve still got fresh turnips, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, lettuce, radicchio, and tatsoi to harvest as we need them. Amazingly, we haven’t had enough frost here to kill the pepper plants. I can’t recall the [...]
Posted in Gardening, Photography on Nov 16th, 2009
After reading the great photography write up Composing With Color by Saxon Holt over at Gardening Gone Wild, I was inspired by the scene right out my home office window. The few red leaves of Euonymus alatus left hanging on the shrub were the only bright spots I could see on a drab and cloudy day. [...]
Posted in Gardening on Nov 11th, 2009
Southern Indiana
USDA Zone 6b
An organic gardener shares his thoughts about gardening, nature, food and being self-sufficient.
