All the Dirt on Gardening

Lettuce seedlings to pot up red radish Wax beans Hedged my bets- planted peas (cool) and cucumber (heat) seeds along the fence. Silverskin beans harvested daily and we find more the next day! Arugula ready to harvest  Red Russian Kale seedlings to re-pot Red Russian Kale - seeds directly sown Dinosaur Kale

November in our vegetable garden has plantings that are the result of much earlier activity. If the weather is lovely like it is this year, we continue to have snacks from our little growing space. This week we are eating beans, peppers, arugula, radishes and broccoli raab. The snow peas are over a foot tall but do not have flowers yet. Snow peas in November Calendula   Bean flower Unlike those enviable, energetic souls who enjoy extending the gardening season into a 12-month cycle, we do not  put up plastic row covers or try to grow in greenhouses. By the time the hard freezes arrive, we are content to eat what we have preserved, shop in stores, and give ourselves a break. The calendula planted around and inside the vegetable garden to attract pollinators is working double time as most of our flying friends are finding shelter under leaf piles every night now that it's in the 30s after dark.  Fall beans The beets are about 3-inches tall, the Red Russ...