Barbara: I was looking forward to this past Saturday morning ever since I read that the University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners would be presenting a fall vegetable workshop at the Farm and Food Lab in the Great Park. Irvine is something of a wasteland when it comes to these sorts of things, so [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Vegetables’
A Morning Full of Surprises
Posted in Agriculture & Farming, California, Flowers, Garden, Vegetables, tagged California, Farm, Flowers, Food and Farm Lab, Garden, Gardening, Great Park, Irvine, Master Gardeners, Orange County, Organic, Raised Bed Gardening, Row Crops, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables on September 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Taking the Cure
Posted in Block Island, Cooking, Garden, Vegetables, tagged Basil, Beets, Block Island, Carrots, Garden, Herbs, Kale, Leeks, Organic, Recipe, Roma Tomato, Soup, Squash, Swiss Chard, Tomatoes, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables on September 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Mary Beth: Ray and I were under the weather on Labor Day weekend, so I decided to make a nutritious soup using all the wonderful vegetables in my garden. As I was picking the ingredients for the soup, I was thinking about the article I read on the Garden Rant blog where the author mentions [...]
WTF’s Eating My Tomato Plants?
Posted in Block Island, Critters, Garden, Vegetables, tagged Block Island, Dogs, Garden, Garden Pests, Gardening, Organic, Plants, Tomato Hornworm, Tomatoes, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables on September 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Mary Beth: Oh how wonderful it is to be standing in the garden looking at those beautiful tomatoes, feeling proud of my babies and thinking of all the delicious meals I’m going to make. Mmm.
Wait! Something catches my eye. WTF?! Something is chewing big chunks of my plants! My tomatoes!
A shiver runs down my spine [...]
Deer Fencing and Other Spring Happenings
Posted in Bees, Block Island, California, Flowers, Garden, Hive, Vegetables, tagged Beekeeping, Bees, Block Island, Blossoms, California, Deer, Deer Fence, Flowers, Fullerton Arboretum, Garden, Gardening, Herbs, Honeybee, Langstroth Beehive, Native Plants, Orange County, Organic, Plants, Queen Bee, Seedlings, Spring, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables on May 26, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Mary Beth: Memorial Day weekend on Block Island was a busy one and if it hadn’t started to rain I’d still be out there. The reason I was so busy was that this is the year Ray and I decided to come up with a real solution to the deer problem — well, I decided [...]
Did Someone Say Chickens?
Posted in Block Island, Chickens, Garden, tagged Beekeeping, Bees, Block Island, Chicken Coop, Chickens, Flowers, Garden, Gardening, Organic, Spring, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables on April 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
B: Mary Beth’s been working feverishly to get ready for the main event, the arrival of her honeybees in less than four days — more on that in the next post. In the meantime, we thought we’d show you what the Block Island garden looks like in the last throes of winter.
As every gardener knows, [...]
What We Forgot
Posted in Bees, Block Island, Garden, Hive, Honey, tagged Beehive, Beekeeping, Beekeeping Supplies, Bees, Block Island, Flowers, Gardening, Honey, Nectar, Seeds, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables on March 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Things in Bee World have been a little quiet. We’ve had other distractions — birthday parties, out-of-town relatives coming to visit, and, the biggest distraction of all, working to pay the bills. But here’s what’s happened in the last few days.
The lower deep hive body — the brood chamber, and the upper deep hive body [...]
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