A Bigger, Better Tomato Plant

With the garden finally planted, and the weeding underway, I finally have time to post about how I’ve been planting my tomato plants the past few years. I first like to cut off the first few stems from the bottom of the plant.  This is the entire area I will...
Valley Adventure – The Stonecrop Gardens

Valley Adventure – The Stonecrop Gardens

 Yesterday, we spent a wonderful afternoon in yet another Hudson Valley gem – the Stonecrop Gardens; one of my 2015 Summer Bucket list items – exploring secret gardens. Stonecrop was the home of Anne & Frank Cabot and became a public garden in 1992....

Spring Is For Strawberries

Have you been pickin’ yet?  Strawberries have a short season here in the Hudson Valley, so we’re in the final weeks where you can pick-your-own or find a roadside farmer’s markets to gather these sweet red beauties.  Last year I missed out, so this...

Vegetable Garden Update 2015

Instead of trying to backtrack and create individual posts of the garden project update as I mentioned in the last “Update” post, I thought I’d just do a quick overview with pictures. In the original section of the garden, we took out the old raised...