A Northern Nevada Garden

Well, technically I still have a garden in Reno but I am an absentee gardener so there probably won’t be much action here. I will maintain the archives though and I will probably write a summary of the gardening season (it was a wacky one, wasn’t it??) New home=new gardening adventures … and in my [...]

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I want to make sure that the next owner has a decent start to a plant list. It was fun thinking about all the plants that were a gamble–the ones that paid off and the ones that didn’t. Luckily there are more that fall into the success category. I also picked a handful of raspberries [...]

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Things are winding down in my Nevada garden. I will be relocating to Kansas City soon. I’ll need to learn to garden all over again. And get used to a place that doesn’t count its precipitation inch by precious inch. I will be able to grow giant tomatoes again. But I will miss the desert. [...]

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I have three large pine trees in a corner of my backyard. I don’t know the name but they are very tall–but not wide–trees with smooth, almost black bark. A few days ago, we noticed that one of them looked very bad especially compared to the other two. I have no idea why I didn’t [...]

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A couple new photos–not many. The baby round zucchini was the first harvest of 2009. It’s a new variety for me and I am happy with the selection.

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Check out The Carson Gardener: http://carsongardener.wordpress.com/

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All of the yard waste was shredded and added to. And now we have this: Today we made a small dent in the pile by mulching in the part of the yard known as the “former dog run area”–I am trying to make it into a garden. My better half went out and dug out [...]

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Well, all of the tomato seedlings are planted at last. I put the last three in big plastic pots on the deck (the heavy kind that trees come in). I put 6 ft bamboo stakes in the pots which look ridiculous next to the small plants. But last year I ran into problems by not [...]

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Well, I didn’t think I would last very long outside this morning but I actually got quite a bit done. It’s a soft gentle rain, great for new transplants. I transplanted more tomato seedlings, cilantro and chive starts, and a yucca and two agaves that arrived this week from my best friend, a master propagator [...]

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