Growing a kitchen garden in a small space, one leaf at a time
Seems like it's been a while since I last wrote about my worm bin. Believe it or not, despite all my efforts in ruining it, it's still there! As I wrote in summer, last batches of worm castings were a failure (the numerous reasons for this are listed here), so I decided to let the …
Continue reading Vermiculture in late fall
After I harvested potatoes in the end of July (or was it August?), I had a couple of opportunistic plants pop up in a few spots in my raised garden bed, and the way they were growing, I got all excited for a late fall harvest... Long story short: I only got three tubers on …
This week Philadelphia got its first taste of winter... While this snow won't last, it served as a sort of message from the powers-that-be: Fall is over! Really! Warm days are gone! So in my usual manner, meaning that it was way past due time to do this, I rushed to cover my container plants …
Why would you bother with seed saving, one might ask. Well, for starters, I spent over $80 on seeds just this year (that's not counting seedlings, tubers, etc.)... Also, it is interesting to see something go full circle: seed-plant-fruit-seed. Finally, after a couple seasons of successive seed saving you can proudly proclaim that you have …
I finally got to completing yet another task that was long overdue (in fact, overdue can easily be my word of the season): bringing in the Gypsy sweet pepper from my balcony garden. I've always thought of peppers as annuals, when in fact they are tender perennials that can be easily overwintered sometimes outdoors, but …
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Before I start the post, I'd like to make it clear that this is not a tutorial. Some wild mushrooms can be as dangerous as the others are delicious. If you are interested in learning how to identify edible mushrooms from poisonous ones, please seek professional instruction. In Russia, foraging for wild mushrooms is a …
