For those of you following our blog you know that we just moved into a new house. We are super happy with the new house but the one thing it is missing is a garden. This is the spot where the garden will go but we have been so busy with the house remodel that [...]
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2012 Garden Year in Review
December 29th, 2012 
Rick So 2012 was a good year in the garden, but not our best. We ended up with 637.25 pounds of produce, which is about average for us but far short of last years record 750 pounds. I won’t bore you with a breakdown of our total in this post, if you are interested in seeing [...]
Picking the perfect Melon
August 25th, 2012 Rick August is our favorite month in the garden. Why? Because here in Utah that means it’s time for the melons to be ready!! Since we started growing our own melons several years ago we have decided there is nothing better than home grown vine ripened melons. We wait all year for this 4 week [...]
Year Round Gardening Series Part 2
July 24th, 2012 Rick Part two of our winter gardening series will focus on bed preparation and location. I have three 4 x 8 foot beds that are covered in the winter by cold frames and 2 more raised boxes, also 4 x 8, that we cover with hoop houses. These beds are used very intensely through out the [...]
Late May Garden Tour
May 26th, 2012 Rick I know I have been promising a tour of the garden for a couple of weeks now. Sorry for the delay. The vegetable garden in really coming along well here at Stoney Acres, the weather has been great so far this year and I really feel like we are a head of the game this [...]
