by Greg Alder | Aug 29, 2025 | Vegetables |
Even on a hot summer day, I can go into the yard and pick a cucumber and bite into it and feel cooled and refreshed. How does that work? There’s no other vegetable quite like a cuke. I need to have them in my summer garden. Here’s how I go about accomplishing that....
by Greg Alder | Jun 14, 2025 | Vegetables |
I’ve got a cart of vegetable seedlings ready to be planted. Where will they go? My general rule has been to avoid planting the same crop in the same spot two years in a row. So, for example, since I planted tomatoes in Bed 2 last summer, I won’t plant tomatoes in Bed...
by Greg Alder | Feb 7, 2025 | Vegetables |
Yesterday morning I picked carrots to send with my kids in their lunches for the school day. I walked out to the pot on the driveway, pulled up about twenty, gave the green tops to the chickens, washed the roots off, and placed them in the lunch boxes. I grow carrots...
by Greg Alder | Jan 24, 2025 | Soil, Vegetables |
A handful of years ago, I wrote a post about my routine of not tilling, fluffing, loosening the dirt in my vegetable beds (“Don’t dig your garden”). I still don’t turn over the dirt or incorporate compost or manure into my vegetable beds after...
by Greg Alder | Dec 20, 2024 | Vegetables |
Over the years I’ve noticed a phenomenon that I have to share because I hear some parents talk of their kids not wanting to eat vegetables. One thing that I guarantee will increase their consumption is allowing them to graze. Grow what you want them to eat, and then...
by Greg Alder | Oct 26, 2024 | Vegetables |
My job is to grow food for my family. Some crops I grow because we all love to eat them (Cara Cara oranges, for example), some crops I grow because just one of us is a big fan. My wife needs her zucchini so I’ve learned to sow, plant, water, and harvest them....
by Greg Alder | Oct 4, 2024 | Vegetables |
I gave up growing carrots for a few years. I was failing at them; I got discouraged and quit. I first got back in the game because I was wearing the title “Master Gardener” and felt ashamed to do so while being incapable of something so fundamental....
by Greg Alder | May 24, 2024 | Vegetables |
My kids are getting to the ages where they specialize in certain garden activities. The ten year old makes guacamole for the family, from harvesting all the ingredients to chopping and mashing them up. The eight year old enjoys potting up seedlings. And Reeve, the six...
by Greg Alder | Apr 12, 2024 | Vegetables |
(Originally written in December 2021) Next week my daughter turns four, and so does one of the above kale plants. It was in December 2017 that I sowed a handful of kale seeds. We ate leaves from the plants that grew through that winter while my daughter was learning...
by Greg Alder | Mar 29, 2024 | Vegetables |
My tomato plants are on deck, waiting to be planted, because it hasn’t warmed up to their liking yet. This last week’s nights still dipped into the 30s in my yard, we’ve got more rain this weekend, and a shift to consistently dry and warmer weather...
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