Blog — Garden Blog

     We love to plant our tomatoes early and be the first on our block to get big juicy tomatoes from our garden. Here is Farmer Jack prepping the bed for planting.           We have a little help from a Peaceful Valley Farm item called “wall-o-water” http://www.groworganic.com/wall-o-water-3-pk.html  They are like little teepees that protect your plants from frost. The sun warms the water all day and keeps the plant warm through the night.       This year we had a bumper crop of tomatoes. Shown here are my sausage tomatoes which gave me grins throughout the season. Unfortunately all...

  My grandfather was a big gardener. He (with permission) knocked down the fences on either side of his back yard and made a huge 3 lot garden. He grafted lemons, oranges & grapefruit on one tree. He had an avocado tree and a raspberry bush (where I lost my front tooth munching on those succulent red berries). There were always veggies for the neighborhood and all my friends. I didn’t appreciate it until many years too late. I used to hangout while he worked in the garden. If I stayed long enough my grandmother would invite me to dinner....