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July 9 Weekend Harvest – Sugar Snap Peas, Bok Choy, Lettuce, Kale, Collards!

Jul 13 2016

Yup, it’s another harvest post. Yup, we’re picking the same veggies as last week again.

This weekend we had off and on rain while visiting the land, with a heavy downpour happening in the late afternoon that followed us back to NYC. I can’t complain about getting wet in the rain though because water is definitely what the garden needs in this stage.

Our refrigerator is filled with greens right now. We have no idea how we’re going to eat that much lettuce. Thankfully I figured out how to preserve lettuce better last year, and now I can freeze all our bok choy.

So let’s jump right in, sugar snap peas, bok choy, lettce, kale, collards.. I’m coming for you!

The sugar snap peas are in full growing mode right now, we’re picking them by the bucket. Last weekend we picked over 5 pounds!

Jul 05 2016

Did you have a good weekend? The weather was beautiful on the land this weekend, 70 degrees, sunny, and the perfect amount of breeze. It started out chilly enough in the morning that I had to wear a sweatshirt, to the afternoon being able to wear a t-shirt and then at dinner time I needed a sweatshirt again. Saturday had it’s ups and downs for me. I enjoyed gardening, picked lots of vegetables, painted some of the fence (can you guess what color?), had a cookout with some friends who stopped by. The downs were that I started the morning hitting my head off the car door, and then I found a snake skin (terrified of snakes) where I was sitting, and then I found said snake that was trying to hang out with me (that was not happening) and then I fell near the stream grabbing on to some thorny bushes that need to be cleared on my fall down, cutting up my hand and leg pretty badly. Thankfully we had a first aid kid and Matthew happily covered up my hand heavily in ointment, gauze and bandages.

All pain was forgotten when I bit into the campfire made S’more that night.

Yum, Yum.

But on to the veggies because that’s what this post is about.
Keeping with the theme of all the greens we picked last week, you’ll see a repeat of many characters – bok choy, lettuce, collards, etc. We’ll be picking these for the next few weeks and I’ll continue to keep googling “What to do with lettuce” because there’s lots of it!

This weekend’s veggies we picked:

Jun 29 2016

It’s that time again – time to harvest vegetables from the garden!

And it’s time to show you the reveal of the garden, well it’s not really a reveal because it’s not 100% done (still has to be painted and cleaned up) but here it is, in all it’s vegetable glory! I should have a person in the garden for size comparison, because it’s big. It’s really big. There’s endless amounts of vegetables. I love it.

Transitioning from growing on the roof to growing on actual land has been a learning process full of hard work. We started the process of building the garden during the Winter to have it ready to go for Spring. We started planting to a new schedule that was scary due to possible surprise frost dates (still scary). We battled (still are) water issues. We’re learning. We’re working really hard. We filled the last garden bed this weekend. And it’s all so very exciting because we’re finally picking vegetables. This garden thing (on land!) is actually working.

So now starts weekly harvest posts. We go up to the land once a week to water, clean up, plant and pick. And then we lug all those beautiful vegetables back to NYC. We haven’t really had a chance to enjoy the land yet as we’re working constantly there, but soon enough we’ll be able to take a breather and relax alongside the plants.

What are we picking now? I’m glad you asked. There’s lots of Spring greens growing right now at rapid speeds and they’re all ready to be picked. Does anyone need any bok choy? Seriously. Maybe I went a little crazy planting 94 bok choy plants.

We have a entire bed of bok choy plants, we started picking fuller plants 3 weeks ago, and they are just growing and growing and growing. And I’m picking, picking, picking.

Jun 14 2016

Beep, Beep, the plant car is here! Jump on it if you can find a spot. And be careful for the rose bushes!

While the vegetables are growing in the garden, this past weekend we headed to Lowe’s to pretty much buy all their fruit bushes and Rhododendron plants that they had. We had 5 big garden carts filled with berries, trees and flowers going down the checkout aisle, while people marveled on how we were going to fit it into our tiny little car. Our small neon yellow Honda Fit has carried quite a lot since we got it in the Fall, people are always amazed by how much it can carry! I’m not sure if we could have fit any more plants in it, branches were literally reaching out and tickling our noses in the front seat.

Do you think we got enough plants?

Jun 02 2016

How to Build a Rainwater Catchment On a Shed Roof. It’s easy to attach gutters onto your shed roof to collect water for your vegetable garden.

We decided we were going to add a few rain barrels on the land to collect water for the garden. We are trying to be “off the grid” as much as possible for this adventure so it made sense to us to try to catch all the free water we could. For this, we built a shed in the garden and added gutters to it to collect water into the rain barrels.

In just a few days we collected a full 50 gallons of water into one barrel, so it was a big success! Now we hope that it rains every week so we can get a full 100 gallons to water our plants with. Here’s a rain barrel calculator if you want to see how much rain you can collect.

How to Build a Rainwater Collection System

Here’s how we did it:

First, we built a shed This is the 7×7 Rubbermaid Roughneck Gable Storage Shed that we got from Lowe’s to place into the the garden. It was easy to put together as you can see in our time-lapse video.

We bought cheap vinyl gutters and mounted them to our shed with gutter mounts. The most difficult part was the mounting of the gutter hangers. For this we used machine screws to install the gutter hangers on the shed by drilling through the shed wall and fastening the machine screws with washers and a nut.

We used a gutter end with a drop at the back of the shed to funnel the water down and then some flex spout to direct the water right into the rain barrels. The rain barrels are connected to each other in the back with a small hose that we cut. Once one barrel fills up, then the hose will transfer water to the 2nd barrel until they are both full.

May 31 2016

I believe growing your own food is important so I wanted to help promote this project as home gardening is something I feel strongly about! This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day®.

Yes, you read the title right. If you clean your house, basil will grow. It’ll be like magic, but not really, because we all know if magic was involved, our houses would be cleaned without us lifting a finger.

But back to the story. Basil – don’t you love it? It smells great, is bright green, looks just as pretty growing in the garden as it does in a mason jar, grows easily and is the best friend for sandwiches, pasta pesto and pizza recipes.

Basil is such a easy plant to grow in the garden and is pretty resistant to the elements to tear it down. If you’ve ever grown basil you know how big it can grow. With just these 2 basil plants, we had basil forever! Bonus is that if you have too much basil, you can dry it to store in jars (great for sprinkling in casseroles, soups, lasagna, etc).

May 26 2016

Do you remember a few weeks ago we planted the first (ever!) plants on the land? Well now all the Spring vegetables are planted!

A week after the first vegetables went into the ground, the broccoli, cauliflower, bok choy and potatoes were planted. None of it went stress free through. We are still getting used to our new Upstate growing calendar (much colder than NYC, especially at nights) and with that comes a little heart break. The weather said we were in the clear at nights, but after everything was planted we had 2 sudden days below freezing which sadly killed a few of the plants. Thankfully we covered the seedlings up with row cover fabric adding in a extra 4-8 degrees protecting most of them. Although I don’t want to lose any plants, I’d rather lose 10 than lose 200, so I guess we lucked out as a few other people in town didn’t fair as well.

So now… let’s check out the rest of the plants that will complete the Spring season!

First up, the broccoli. This year we have a lot of broccoli growing and we’ve grown some of our best looking seedlings ever. Aren’t they handsome?

May 12 2016

Look at how many pounds of vegetables we grew in our NYC rooftop garden!

I know, I know. It’s May 13th and I’m finally getting around to posting our 2015 garden yield totals. Sorry for how long it’s taken, but better than never, right?!

Drum roll please….!

In 2015 we grew…

458 pounds of vegetables! In NYC! In sub irrigated planters!

Woah! Double woah! High 5!

See the full break down behind the cut.

May 04 2016

Watch as we we plant onions, sugar snap peas, cabbage, lettuce, kale and more in the garden! All plants started from seeds. Follow along with our Upstate journey here!

This weekend was very exciting because we planted our very first plants up on the land! If you want to follow along with when we plant, you can find it on the seed calendar.

We’re slowly adjusting to the new seed schedule for Zone 5A. It feels like we’re planting late since we’re so used to NYC Zone 6B. This is all going to be a learning experience to figure out when we should plant, probably with some heart break thrown in. We looked at tens of charts to figure out when was best, and decided to take a chance and plant our more hardy plants that could survive the cold nights.

So on Saturday we planted sugar snap peas, onions, kale, cabbage, brussels sprouts, collards and lettuce!

And before I go any further, here’s a time lapse of the first bed being prepared and the plants going in! High 5! (I’m exhausted)

We had lots of plants to get planted in one day. Right now there’s so much to do on the land so we tried to stay as focused as possible to get them all planted. We were coming back to NYC after planting, so we knew we had to get them in the ground.

Here’s the plants, all grow from seed, under our DIY grow light stand.

Apr 27 2016

Garden MUST HAVE for starting your vegetable seeds! With just a few supplies from the home improvement store you can make your own DIY Seed Grow Light Stand. This is a easy project to make instead of buying a store bought light stand – saving you hundreds of dollars! We use this for our seeds and they grow amazing – last Summer we picked over 1,000 pounds of vegetables!

This year we wanted to upgrade to a larger space for our seedlings to grow. In the past, we had a large shelf with grow lights, but with the garden getting bigger this year, that means we need more space to grow seedlings. (Tip: Check out my post on how to germinate seeds).

We began to look at premade grow carts from all the garden suppliers and were shocked by how much their grow carts cost. They were anywhere from $700-$1300.. and sometimes more! Not being ok with spending that much money on a growing system that we knew we could make for a lot less, we set off to our local home improvement store to make our own!

You’ll need 3 main supplies to make your own Seedling Grow Light Stand.

Mar 28 2016

The Spring 2016 seeds are planted! Broccoli, Cauliflower, Brussels Sprouts, Collards, Bok Choy, Cabbage, Kale and Onions seeds are all popping through the soil! Come and cheer them on!

We’ve been busy on the weekends getting the Upstate garden ready. This weekend we put lots of hard work in, and next weekend will be even more harder. The good thing is a day of Upstate work equals a week’s worth of workouts (research done by me). I’m going to have such strong muscles one day.

While we’re busy doing manual labor, there’s labor going on here, but the plant kind. The seeds were planted, and they burst through the soil at record speeds. We built a new grow light cart his year (DIY coming soon!) and it’s been majorly effective. In the past we’ve had to wait about a week for our broccoli and bok choy seeds to come up, but this year within 2 days they already broke through the soil and were waving hello. As usual, we planted double seeds in each pot, and as usual every seed came up. It’s always the difficult choice of killing a seedling, or doubling your garden. We have garden parent guilt syndrome (aka GPGS) so we usually can’t kill the extra seedlings. Matthew is like “You cut them” and I’m like “No way! You do it!” and then noone does it. Just today we were planning on getting rid (that sounds awful) of the double plants, but we decided to “hold off”. That means we’ll never do it.

We always grow our vegetables from seeds. Not only is it worth it to watch them grow from seed to vegetable bearing plant, but it’s much more economical. A pack of seeds averages on $2-$5 and that can sometimes get you up to a few hundred plants! A baby plant at a nursery usually costs a few bucks (if not more with heirloom) and you don’t even know if it’s going to survive, so you can see how much money you save. Since we started growing the rooftop garden we’ve learned that it’s important to have good quality seeds, ones with high germination rate and successful growing. Johnny’s Seeds are our go to seed company. We’ve been buying off them for years and have never been disappointed. We have a list we usually stick with every year from growing experience, but occasionally we try something new (lots of new pumpkin varieties this Fall!).

Mar 22 2016

When you get a email invite to a private event that Michelle Obama and the White House are hosting for Let’s Move, you accept it. Well your heart skips a beat, you accept it and then you try to figure out what shoes you’re going to wear. It goes in order like that. That’s what happened last week.

Last week, I made the trip to Washington DC to attend a event to have a conversation on the health of our nation’s children. Let’s Move (started by Michelle Obama in 2010) is a group initiative to encourage healthier food in schools, better food labeling and more physical activity for children. Gardening goes hand in hand with this initiative as it’s important to grow your own. Growing your own vegetables promotes healthy eating, but it also informs you where your food comes from and the process of plant life. If more families were to start their own gardens, they would eat fresh vegetables more often, along with creating family activities to build/maintain and to learn about gardening. I’d say I was one of the few non parents at the event, but I don’t think you need to be a parent to understand why eating healthy matters and to encourage it. Since we started the garden on the roof years ago my own eating habits have greatly improved. I love vegetables now. Sometimes for dinner I just have vegetables, years ago that would have never happened. With the experience of growing the garden I learned so much about nature and the planting process. If you haven’t planted a little itty bitty seed and watched it grow into a full on broccoli plant, you haven’t lived. Even at 32 years old, I’m still excited and amazed when I see a few ounces worth of seeds can turn into hundreds of pounds of vegetables. Before having the garden I didn’t even know where so many vegetables came from. I know it was a plant, but I didn’t know what the plant looked like, how long it took to grew, growing conditions and more. Growing your own makes you respect vegetables a whole lot more. Can I get some respect for vegetables? Amen. And lastly, because of these vegetables I learned how to cook. I almost think it should be a required class in schools now to learn how to cook. If we all cooked at home, think of the impact it would have on obesity, overall health and factory farming. If you follow this blog then you probably already know the joy and satisfaction one gets when presenting a meal to their family that is home cooked. I wish everyone could experience this!

Mar 02 2016

Remember I posted about the garden shivers on Monday? That feeling you get when you’re so excited about the upcoming garden season, you shake from happiness? Yeah. I got the garden shivers bad. I’m so excited.. I just can’t hide it.. I’m about to lose my mind and plant way too much corn!

The garden season is always exciting, but this year it has a new excitement to it as it has so many unknowns. As many of you know, Matthew and I will be starting a larger garden Upstate this year, on our new land project. To go from growing on our rooftop in Brooklyn to growing in the real ground Upstate, there’s going to be changes and surprises. To begin with, our garden season is going to get shorter. Usually we’d start planting our seeds indoors in January but we won’t be planting them until next week as the last day of frost is May 31st in our new zone of 5A. (by the way, I found this really helpful site that lists growing seasons by zone). From there, the garden season lasts “safely” until the last freeze free date which is October 1st. We’ll try extending it as long as we can! The big change here is size. Our garden just got a whole lot bigger with the land. That means we can grow more vegetables and try new things. It also means figuring out what can grow best in this zone, along with our rocky clay soil (I’m getting a soil test done right now – will post about results!). I’m also ready for heart break. There’s going to be heart break. Animals. Weather. Diseases. A gardener has to be prepared for a few garden tears. But a gardener also has to dream big in my opinion. That makes it so much more fun and exciting. 🙂

Knowing that we have to get our seeds planted soon, and being affected by the garden shivers at a very high rate, we sat down this week to plan the garden. This is not 100% firm as things change once you are in the garden space, but it’s pretty close to what we’ll do.

Jan 18 2016

EASY recipe for Potatoes and Kale, my favorite healthy meal. The ingredients are simple: potatoes, kale, and olive oil – that’s it!

We have 4 heads of kale growing in the garden right now. They are hearty plants so they can hold up with Winter temperatures and a dusting of snow that might fall on their pretty little heads.

Vegan Kale Recipes

Say hello to “Potatoes and Kale”. A basic, easy recipe that taught me to respect the kale, love the kale, eat more of the kale. I can’t believe I’m saying this but I’m in love with this simple meal. I super can’t believe I’m saying this but I ask for kale for dinner now.

Matthew is all “What should we have for dinner tonight?” and I’m all like “Kale! Kale! Kale!”. This little dish changed my feelings towards kale. Also I should give credit where it’s due, thank you Matthew, because this is his recipe. He’s the chef behind Potatoes and Kale. After asking this for the 3rd night in a week I got him to write out the recipe which I’m sharing here.

Potatoes and Kale

The ingredients are simple. Potatoes. Kale. Olive Oil. Salt + Pepper. That’s it. Eat it as a side dish or throw it on a little bed of noodles and call it dinner (that’s what we do). Not only is the meal delicious and easy, but it makes you feel like a all-star afterwards because you just ate a healthy meal and you loved it!

Jan 06 2016

In case you missed it, Matthew and I bought land in Upstate NY! You can follow the entire series here. Now we’re ready to work!

Buying land was the result of wanting a garden that came with no rules. So it’s no surprise that the first thing to build on the land is a garden! It’s funny to think about where the garden started from. In 2009 it was 32 square feet and then it became a few hundred square feet, getting bigger by the year. Now it has a few acres to grow!

The future garden is 56×40. That’s huge! We started smaller but I complained it wasn’t big enough so we expanded another few feet (thanks Matthew!). Now that I can stand inside the garden space I realize how big it is and how many plants it would take to fill up the area. Maybe I went a little crazy, but at least we have room to grow!

It’s hard to figure out what steps to do first when you’re starting from the beginning (and in Winter). I suppose our steps could have been in a different order to make things easier on us, but with us spending sporadic weekends up there and wanting to use the equipment when we have it to avoid extra rental day costs we’re doing things as we can. For example, over Thanksgiving we put in the fence posts because the weather was nice and we had a free weekend. Now that the posts are up, there’s no way a truck is going to be able to empty soil/compost into it easily when Spring is here. That means they will have to dump it nearby and we’ll have to move it into the garden ourselves. It’s extra work, but we think in the end it’s going to make the process completed quicker. Plus to be honest, the process is sometimes much more fun than the complete project.

With the garden being the first thing we want completed we wanted to get a jump on turning the soil. We rented a skid steer for a weekend to remove the top layer of grass and turn the soil under neath. We are in the Catskills so we knew it was going to be rocky but we weren’t sure how rocky it was going to be. Our land is former farm land, but it sure is rocky too. Over the next few visits we’ll be removing as many as the rocks as we can. There’s lots of rocks. I guestimated millions. There’s no way we are going to be able to remove all the rocks, but there are some big ones (that I can’t even lift) that need to be removed as well as endless smaller ones. The goal is for every rock that’s larger than a tennis ball to be removed. You might think this sounds easy, but there’s tons of rocks and we dug deep to turn the soil… so rocks are everywhere. I see them in my nightmares! I tried to find a easier way to do this but without some heavy duty farm equipment, it seems by rake and hand is easiest. You’ll see me sitting in the dirt often in the next few months. It might look like I’m not doing anything but I really am! I’m going to become a expert rock picker. The rocks are going to be used to line the exterior of the garden too, we’re trying to give back to the land whatever we dig up. We think lining the outside of the garden with rocks will help keep pests from digging into the garden. Since we won’t be able to guard the garden on a daily basis we’re trying to protect it however we can. It’s going to be a learning process with some heartbreak involved.

In the pictures below you’ll see our garden posts up. I’ll be doing a whole series on how we built our garden fence. Right now the fence posts are in (hard work). Next, the fencing material and wood needs to be attached to make a complete fence. This is going to take time, some friends and some hopeful warmer days. I’ll be documenting all the steps so by end of Spring you should see a entire DIY fence post coming!

Now let’s first see the damage we did over the weekend.

Before:

After:

Jan 03 2016

Yup, the title is correct. We picked tomatoes in January. It’s crazy!

If you live in the Northeast then you probably have witnessed this confusing “Winter” weather. Usually in November you can feel the weather start to change but this year it didn’t hit. Then December came and I thought “Well, now it’s going to feel like Winter”. And on a few days, it did. But the majority of the days did not feel like Winter. Oh Christmas Eve we took a walk, me in short sleeves and Matthew in shorts. It was in the 70’s! ON CHRISTMAS EVE. I have to type that in caps to understand the craziness. December set temperature records across NYC, including Christmas day. Now it’s the beginning of January and I think it’s finally starting to feel like Winter. Winter, are you here? It’s me, Pamela. Snow if you can hear me.

Because of the lack of near frost temperatures and our schedule getting busy, this year we didn’t cut down our tomato plants like we usually do at the beginning of November. There were still some green tomatoes on the plants and the weather was still changing daily so we left the plants up. November came, December came, and the tomato plants stayed up. During the Winter we don’t visit the garden everyday so you can imagine my surprise when I checked it out one day and I saw all these tomatoes on the plants! Can you believe it? I thought the plants would be dead by now, but instead they’ve been on the roof making tomatoes! What busy plants…!

So with it finally feeling like Winter (40 degrees out today) and seeing the upcoming night time temperatures I took a basket to the garden this weekend and picked pounds of tomatoes. I can’t believe we were able to pick tomatoes in the beginning of January!

Nov 06 2015

Remember when I said a few weeks ago it was going to frost shortly? Well it didn’t. I’m kicking myself for picking all those green tomatoes but it’s better safe than to be sorry. After all, they are turning red in their shoe boxes beautifully. So with yesterday almost reaching 80 degrees and the previous weekend requiring a Winter hat, it’s a little confusing. I assume this is how the garden feels too, confused. Should I grow? Should I not grow? Should I call for Mom to harvest me? Should I keep Mom away from us because she keeps doing weird dance moves?

With a basket in hand I made it to the garden this week to pick some final vegetables of the season. The plants are winding down and I really believe this is it (minus the kale). I picked a nice selection of green beans, peppers (bells and jalapenos), soybeans that I’ll be picking out their pods forever (anyone want to help?), tomatillos and the final red tomatoes.

This weekend we’ll start working on a new garden project that’s exciting but you’ll have to wait to hear more about it this month. I can’t wait to get to work on it so I can share it with you!

For now though… let’s look at what I picked!

A nice selection of veggies..

Green beans for days. I’ve been freezing them so it looks like we have alot of green bean soup ahead of us for the Winter.

Oct 29 2015

Simple step by step instructions on how to How to Turn Tomatoes Red! All you need is a box!

It’s a few days from November but I’m still enjoying fresh tomatoes. No, I’m not picking them from the garden, that ship has sailed. The nights became too cold a few weeks ago and the garden was pretty much put to sleep, minus a few hearty greens. To grab some fresh tomatoes I’m now picking them from a shoebox. To be exact, 4 big shoeboxes full of tomatoes.

Don’t you hate when it’s the end of the season and you have hundreds of green tomatoes staring at you? The sadness.. The tears. The longing to want to save all those baby green tomatoes so they can turn into big red adults one day.

We had so many green roma and cherry tomatoes left we couldn’t let them go bad. Never leave a tomato behind. We aren’t big fried green tomato fans, so it was back to the basics, time to box up those tomatoes and let them turn red naturally.

The way to do is really simple. Are you ready?

How to Turn Tomatoes Red

Put your tomatoes in a shoe box (or any type of cardboard box), close it. Put shoe box in cool place. Check on them twice a week. Watch them turn red over time. Pick the red tomatoes out and enjoy!

Now wasn’t that easy?

Here’s another tip, if you want to turn them red more quickly then add a banana into each box. Just make sure you keep a eye on the banana so it doesn’t turn into mush and make a mess.

With a bunch of green tomatoes left, we stuck them in their boxes about 10 days ago and I just checked them today to find a whole bunch of red beauties looking at me!

Garden Update: What’s Growing in October?

Oct 16 2015

The last few weeks have been confusing for the garden. It started with a windy October throwing tomatoes off their plants and all over the roof, while almost knocking down our pea fence (thankfully it’s secured in about 6 spots). With the wind came the 40 something degree nights. Then suddenly it had 80 degree days. Then it was down to 50. Then it was 75. And today again, it’s back to wearing a coat. With the ups and downs the garden doesn’t know whether to stop growing or keep producing. This weekend we’re going to remove the rest of the tomatoes from the plants, even if they’re green. In the next week we’re getting close to freezing at night (it’s already at freezing just 3 hours north of us) so it’s better to be safe than sorry. The soy bean, peas and beans were already removed last weekend with a nice harvest coming from them. Next up is the tomatoes and peppers and that pretty much wraps up this seasons garden. The kale which was planted in early Spring is still kicking it in it’s full glory so we’re going to let that keep growing throughout the Winter and see how it does. Kale is a pretty hearty plant so maybe it’ll keep growing and I can push aside some snow to pick kale.

Now the garden in pictures…. the ending of the season!

This is the garden on a very very windy day that rained hours before. Since the fences were really blowing in the wind to scary levels we had to take them down. Imagine taking down 12 foot tall wire fences in the super wind. Yeah it’s quite a experience. And yes, you and your loved one will get in many arguments. Also ignore the slight mess, I had a few baskets and bowls there ready to collect our harvest.

Sep 24 2015

Soybeans are always warriors of the garden. We started growing these a few years ago when I was madly in love with edamame but hated the price of it. So we bought some soybean seeds, planted them and a few months later we were left with so many soybeans we didn’t know what to do!

Remember that crazy year of soybeans?

Oh, I remember it!

With this year we continued the soybean tradition but planted a few plants less than usual because… well, we had too many soybeans!

It started out with a seed… It started out with a kiss… Anyone love that song? Anyone else think Brandon Flowers is a babe? Major babe. Like Woah babe. Top 5 babes. Along with Goblin and Brother Bear.

July 9 Weekend Harvest – Sugar Snap Peas, Bok Choy, Lettuce, Kale, Collards!

July 2 Weekend Harvest – Sugar Snap Peas, Bok Choy, Lettuce, Kale, Collards!

June 25 Weekend Harvest – Bok Choy, Lettuce, Kale and Collards!

Here Comes the Plant Car…. Berries Being Planted!

How to Build a Rainwater Catchment On a Shed Roof

How to Build a Rainwater Collection System

Basil Will Grow If You Clean Your House

All the Spring Vegetables Are Planted!

2015 Garden Yield Amounts

First Vegetables Planted On The Land!

How to Make Your Own DIY Seed Grow Light Stand!

Spring seeds are planted! Come cheer them on!

A Visit to the White House Garden – Full Tour of Veggies, Bees and More!

P+M Upstate Adventure: Planning the 2016 Garden – Check out our layout!

Potatoes and Kale

Vegan Kale Recipes

Potatoes and Kale

P+M Upstate Adventure: Removing Grass and Turning Soil for Garden

January Tomato Harvest…. WHAT?!

Garden Update: What’s Growing in November?

How to Turn Tomatoes Red

How to Turn Tomatoes Red

Garden Update: What’s Growing in October?

Summer Picking of Soybeans