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It’s been awhile since we gave you all a garden update. Soon we will also write an update on the landscape and the flowerbed, but for now this is what we have going on in the veggie garden: Hace tiempo que no actualizamos a todos en como va la huerta. Pronto tambien haremos una actualizacion […]
Fall is almost here and the weather and pests have conspired against my garden. In the last update we told you about our attempt to rescue all our pepper plants and the harvest of the sweet potatoes. We discovered that squash bugs were the reason why our plants died, but luckily we got the peppers […]
The summer gardening season is almost over at Los Rodriguez farm (we wish we had a farm…but oh well!). We had fun working in the garden, seeing things pop up, eating fresh veggies, chopping herbs, fighting mildew and uninvited “guests”. We refused to use pesticides or anything that could add toxins to our plants, so […]
One of the most productive plants in our garden is the basil. It is really great to see it grow big and fast and to be able to pick a leaf when I go to check the plants and smell the amazing aroma of this fresh Italian basil. I like to chop a leaf and […]
The garden is growing and starting to yield some tasty veggies for us. There’s nothing big yet but at least we have started to see growth and fruits. I was worried about one of our beds since it seemed like the plants did not want to grow there, but now everything is getting big and […]
Since I was a kid beets have called my attention – it’s probably because my mom made them so tasty, but also because of the deep purple color they have and their sweet flavor that mixes perfectly with a lemon, olive oil, and salt dressing. Since I moved to the U.S. from Chile the only […]
This garden of ours is Javier’s baby – he dreamed it up, build the beds, fenced them in with chicken wire (which I now know is really hard to do alone!), bought the plants and researched the soil etc. etc. and did it all on his own. The only part of this that I can […]
The garden is looking great and we are really excited to see that most of the plants that we started from seed (corn, sunflowers, and radishes) are growing and growing FAST! I realized that I overwatered some plants, which resulted in a powdery mildew attack on the squash! AHHHHHHH!!! La huerta se ve genial y […]
To continue with the gardening theme (see previous posts on starting the garden here and what we planted here), one evening last week we saw a tower of seeds at the grocery store and decided to try growing a few plants from scratch. All of the rest of the plants we have were already in […]
We’ve tossed around the idea of starting a garden since we moved into our house, but with so many other projects spring and summer flew by last year so we had to wait until it was time to plant again. This is our very first garden – neither of us has any experience growing plants […]
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