The Greek goddess Persephone was the beautiful daughter of Demeter. Hades fell in love with her and in true Greek God form he kidnapped her, took her to the underworld and forced her to marry him. Demeter begged Zeus to intervene and save her daughter which he did. Unfortunately I guess there’s a rule about [...]
Archive for July, 2012
Winter Garden Series Part 5 – Planting times
July 31st, 2012 
Rick 
Posted in Winter Gardening 
Tags: All Season Gardening, Cold Frames, Four Season Gardening, Winter Gardening 
2 Comments »Refrigerator Pickles!!
July 31st, 2012 Rick Hi guys, I will have more of the winter gardening series a little later today but I had to let you in on a little secret I learned this week. Refrigerator Pickles are awesome!! Here’s a photo our our first batch of pickles for the year. The recipe comes from Vanessa over at Presidential Living. [...]
Monday Harvest Report 7-30-2012
July 30th, 2012 Rick The hot weather continues here in Utah. We have been right around 95 all week with no relief in sight for another 6 days. Despite the hot weather the garden is slowly starting to produce. This week was our largest harvest week of the year so far and also offered the most variety. Monday saw [...]
Four Season Gardening Series #4 – More Crop Selections
July 28th, 2012 Rick Continuing from our last post in the winter gardening series today we will talk more about what to grow in the winter garden. Carrots – Carrots are the one of the high lights of the winter garden. We always choose a smaller variety as they just don’t have as much time to develop. Little finger [...]
Posted in Winter Gardening Tags: All Season Gardening, Cold Frames, Four Season Gardening, Kale, Winter Gardening 3 Comments »Four Season Gardening Series #3 – Crop Selection
July 27th, 2012 Rick In part three of our winter gardening series let’s talk about cold frame crops. Lettuce – most varieties of lettuce will do great in the cold frames. There are some growers that focus on some extra cold hardy varieties, Johnny Seeds has several. Don’t bother with head lettuce, it will never get done by [...]
