Jared finally fixed the broken trellis, so I put in my little baby cucumber plants today. I had planted three…
Author: Jenny Smith
I'm Jenny Smith. I blog about life on the 300+ acres of rolling farmland in Northern Virginia where I live. I like tomatoes, all things Star Trek, watercolor, and reading. I spend most days in the garden fighting deer and groundhogs while trying to find my life's meaning. I'm trying to be like Jesus -- emphasis on the trying.
Catchup day
Today is garden catchup day. It’s been too cold to work, so today we made up for it. We cut…
Tomato planting day!
It finally came! I’m like a kid waiting for Santa, except instead of being excited to play with toys, I’m…
Self-control when gardening
It is taking every bit of self-control I can muster to avoid planting my vegetables out right now, even though…
Italian grape
The Italian grape tomato plant — last of the seeds I stole from Italy six years ago, and the only…
How to double or triple your asparagus yield
We end up with a lot of asparagus each year, and I mean A LOT. I have 25 asparagus plants…
Bear Claw blooms
The tomato plants I ordered from Laurel’s Heirloom Plants in California came in on Saturday! She had them packaged really…
Great weather but…
It’s beautiful outside today! It’s 70 degrees with sunshine and a light breeze — almost couldn’t be better weather. It…
Finished drip line, planting, sharing
The weather was unseasonably warm yesterday, which means a thunderstorm is coming, That meant I needed to focus on getting…
Garden testing and infrastructure
Today I’m going to post about the infrastructure we are adding to the garden this year in the form of…