A Northern Nevada Garden

We have a white koi we call Blanche. She’s grown a lot. This is somewhat surprising given that she won’t eat the food that we give her. She swims and hides when we get close to the pond (she’s been shy from day one). But maybe all those new yummy plants are enough after all. [...]

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This week, we harvested our first tomatoes: a few Beaverlodge slicers, some cherry tomatoes and a couple of red currant tomatoes. I ordered the beaverlodge and red currant tomatoes as plants from Territorial Seed Company. They form part of my wall of tomatoes. We also harvested a couple of Ichiban eggplants. It’s a small, tasty [...]

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The algae has retreated. I fished some out this morning and the haul was far less than it was a month ago. The plants look good for the most part. The canna looked a little cooked and one of the water celery plants looked sub-optimal but the flotilla of azolla is nothing short of amazing. [...]

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Don’t be hasty. That’s something that I have learned from gardening. That brown stick might grow, this plant might bear fruit, you might find just the right plant for the inhospitable part of the yard. Today I have snapdragons in bloom, one of the few things I can reliably grow from seed. They are a [...]

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The to-do list: Feed and water plants Tie up tomato plants and pinch back Add soil to the potato sacks What I saw in the garden today: Tiny squash and lots of squash blooms Echinacea buds Yellow snapdragon seedlings? This is the most exciting find. These snapdragons are from seeds collected in Arizona from a [...]

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