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Random pics & thoughts from a veg garden

July 18, 2020 By Carol Michel 3 Comments

Add caption A few random pics and thoughts from The Vegetable Garden Cathedral. Vegetable Garden Cathedral? Are you new here? That's what I call my vegetable garden. All because for one brief summer in or around 2012, or rather precisely in 2012, the garden was arranged with a center aisle with raised beds on each side, like rows of pews. Honestly, entering the vegetable garden was like entering a church. (Begin your interpretation of that here!) So even though it isn't arranged that way … [Read more...] about Random pics & thoughts from a veg garden

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The Laziest Gardener in the World, A Garden Fairy’s Tale

July 10, 2018 By Carol Michel 4 Comments

Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we are here to proclaim that Carol is the laziest gardener in the world. We have evidence! The other day, Granny 'Gus' McGarden came crying out of the vegetable garden because the lettuce was flowering. Now, normally, the presence of flowers is something to celebrate, but not when it is lettuce flowers. As Granny knows, once a vegetable plant stops producing, the rule is you are supposed to yank it out and sow seeds for something else, like … [Read more...] about The Laziest Gardener in the World, A Garden Fairy’s Tale

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Anticipation, Thy Name is Green Tomato

June 30, 2017 By Carol Michel 3 Comments

My vegetable garden is full of anticipation right now. The green beans are flowering and so are the squash plants.  The corn stalks are more than knee high which is good because around here we like to say "knee high by the 4th of July" about our corn, even though most field corn is shoulder high by now. The zinnias are budding up nicely and so are the marigolds. I hope I get as good a display of those this year as I did last year. I do wish my cucumber plants were further along and … [Read more...] about Anticipation, Thy Name is Green Tomato

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Conquering Cabbage Consternation

April 6, 2017 By Carol Michel 5 Comments

I'll admit that it has been years, if not decades, since I planted cabbage and broccoli in my vegetable garden. When I tried to grow them back in the day, it never failed that within weeks of planting, the pretty white cabbage butterflies would find my plants, lay their eggs and then their larvae, little green worms, commenced to consume my crops. Oh the unsightly mess. I do not use pesticides in my vegetable garden so that was never an option to control them. I knew I could cover them with … [Read more...] about Conquering Cabbage Consternation

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A new season begins in The Vegetable Garden Cathedral

March 18, 2017 By Carol Michel 4 Comments

I had to make an emergency run to the garden center today because I realized I didn't have any 'Green Arrow' peas to plant. I plant peas on St. Patrick's Day, always. Well, always for the past ten years or so. And always 'Green Arrow'. And then they didn't have 'Green Arrow' at the garden center I went to.  So I bought 'Wando' and 'Provision #9'.  Then I remembered I had a small packet of 'Green Arrow' at home after all. But was it going to be enough?  I went to another store … [Read more...] about A new season begins in The Vegetable Garden Cathedral

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How I order seeds for my garden

January 16, 2017 By Carol Michel 7 Comments

Vegetables to enjoy in season I try to order most of my vegetable garden seeds in the middle of January. I've been ordering seeds for one garden or another since I was a teenager and took over ordering seeds for my dad. Back then, I spent hours studying the seeds catalogs, reading all the descriptions and making suggestions on the seeds we should order.  My dad, as I recall, usually agreed with my choices. Now I mostly order seeds by memory, by feel, which means I don't make lists. I … [Read more...] about How I order seeds for my garden

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