Leaf Roll & Curl on Tomatoes and Potatoes

I have been watching some of my tomato and potato plants very closely in the last week, as some of their leaves are rolling up quite dramatically, and I’m a nervous wreck about having to rip out half of my potato crop and a third of my tomato crop.
But it looks like the problem here [...]

Farmers Market Today!

It rained hard all night, but it seems to have let up at least for the moment.  So, I walked out in the mud with my first cup of coffee and started pulling Easter Egg radishes.  They are a lovely mix of white, red, pink, and purple (or at least they will be by the [...]

MacGyver Casserole*

*No cans were opened in the production of this dish.

You will need a standard box of macaroni and cheese mix. I used Annie’s Peace Pasta with Parmesan.
Walk down to the garden and pick a few leaves of fresh spinach. Rip out a few garlic greens from your wild patch. Green onions could [...]

Garden Tour Tonight!

I am giving a tour of my gardens for Community Gardeners, CSA members, and all other interested parties tonight (Wednesday).
We’ll meet at the Community Gardens (behind the Washington Street Arts Center, 202 Washington Street) at 6:30pm and carpool out.
It’s only a couple miles, so it won’t take long to get there.  You might want to [...]

CSA Newsletter: Volume 4, Issue 3

Flying Tomato Farms News
A newsletter for members of Flying Tomato Farms C.S.A.
Vol. 4, Issue 3
GARDEN NEWS:

Mowing and hoeing and weeding and watering to get ready for tomorrow night’s garden tour. We’re meeting at 6:30pm at the Vermillion Community Gardens, located behind the Washington Street Arts Center at 202 Washington Street, and we’ll carpool [...]

Salad Goddess

Ok, I’m tooting my own horn a bit (if Arachne’s punishment was to be turned into a spider, what will mine be?  Will I be turned into a slug to eat lettuce all my days?).
But one of my absolute favorite things to do in the garden is to custom blend a salad mix, which I [...]

One Ton Tomato

Finally passed the 100 tomato plant mark today after setting in 2 Costaluto Genovese, 4 Zapotec Pleated, and 4 Black from Tula.
But mostly I just hoed and weeded and mulched in anticipation of garden visitors on Wednesday night.
One thing I haven’t gotten in the ground is flowers.  And I have all these lovely zinnias (pink! [...]

The Idea of a Tomato

It was a long, but lovely day. Spring has burst its seams, and we spent the morning visiting with family before heading out to the country. I beat Harry out there, so I headed down to the gardens and planted 14 hills (actually, they’re divots–not hills) of four varieties of summer squash, plus [...]

Weather-Enforced Break!

Thanks to the strong storms that rolled through from about 2-3am, I’m taking a much-needed break from the gardens today and working on my summer classes–responding to the first round of composition drafts and literature reading responses.
I was feeling really run-down and overwhelmed yesterday–got to the farmers market with what I could get harvested yesterday [...]

Farmers Market Today

So far, it looks like I’ll have some buttercrunch lettuce, green onions, and asparagus–probably some fresh cilantro.
The jams and jellies folks will most likely be back, and Mike with his spring garlic and onions, compost and mulch as well. And we may have a few more folks show up–last week we had lots of [...]