The last day of February means the beginning of the slow arrival of warm weather to me. The snow “might” not come again…..please don’t! The scattered days of temperatures over 50 are less scattered and, in turn, start to coax things out of the dirt to turn the brown into patches of green. Here we … Continue reading »
Nature’s water bottle
The saga of the calabash squash is seemingly never-ending I know! They first grew on me as volunteers in the garden, looking like they might become something delicious so I let them creep and crawl and vine around the space vacated by my failed cucumber crop until I was faced with some jolly green giants … Continue reading »
The time had come!
All right JGG’s blog readers, I know you have been waiting for this since about October. Well, last week, on a relatively balmy for January Sunday, I decided that it was time to…….HARVEST THE BRUSSEL SPROUTS!!!!! Yes, the talk of the Arctic cold front coming had me a little concerned that my darling sprouts … Continue reading »
Let the buyer beware!
The brussel sprout saga has been going on for months! Yes, I have been posting and kinda bragging and visiting them weekly since they were planted when the earth was still warm (seems like only yesterday). Their progress has been closely observed by me during those weekly visits and I had noticed a difference in … Continue reading »
Jersey Fresh in January :)
When I last blogged I showed you my teeny-weeny beets that have been hanging out at the farmette since about late September. Why they are still teeny is beyond me. Maybe the soil is lacking, maybe they will plump up by February, I don’t know…..so I picked them anyway because I have been craving my … Continue reading »
Happy New Year!! xoxo Jersey Gina
Anyone who knows me well has listened to me with chagrin when I say every Labor Day “it’s almost Christmas!!!”. Well, get your chagrin ready because now I’m saying “it’s almost time to plant cold crops!!!!” aka spinach, collards, lettuce…. I could go on and on. Of course, bummer that it is, I have to … Continue reading »
Ready for a long winter’s nap…
Well, for the past few weeks I have been pulling and tilling and raking and discarding piles and piles of what used to be my veggie plants. This weekend was it. The peppers were pulled, the weeds were yanked and all of the mess went somewhere. I’ll never tell but it was all organic, so … Continue reading »
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood…
So, having the pleasure of farming this year did not only include my immediate surroundings, but being able to venture out and around the neighborhood of haphazardly fenced in mini-farms and take a nature trail is quite the added bonus. Soooo, check out the countryside…..
Surviving Sandy thank you very much!
At both my homes and my beloved farmette, we were spared and thank God and pray for those that weren’t so lucky! We were soooo fortunate and really, if a few brussel sprouts blew over (they did!) and some lettuce got ruffled (just a tad dirty), none of that compared to what happened to so … Continue reading »
Cilantro success!
How do those bunches of cilantro show up on Shop Rite shelves and farmer’s market baskets??? Every single solitary time I have tried to grow cilantro it keeps the maybe 12 leaves I buy it with and then sends up a seed stalk. Literally every attempt has failed at growing the essential Mexican ingredient….until now….in … Continue reading »
