jongela.com » garden http://jongela.com Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:08:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Our unmaintained garden http://jongela.com/2010/02/our-unmaintained-garden/ http://jongela.com/2010/02/our-unmaintained-garden/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:48:32 +0000 jon http://jongela.com/?p=452 We don’t like to go out in the cold, so we abandoned our garden for the winter.  This month has gifted us with a couple warm days so we checked up on our garden.  Our garden has done surprisingly well!

The compost we started a year and a half ago actually looks like compost!  The things that decomposed really well were vegetable discards, fruit discards, leaves, and organic bowls.  But you can easily tell the things that didn’t do so well: egg shells, yarn, and spoons.  It doesn’t smell at all any more…but the question is if we want to withstand the gnats and stink again for more.

Our green onions seem to be hanging in there all through winter.  During the winter, we were sad to see that our garlic was all dead, but it looks like they’ve made a re-emergence for the spring!  Yum!  I love garlic!!

I can’t wait for it to get warmer…because that means we’ll be able to plant some basil.  And you know what that means…PESTO!!!!!

Compost successful Garlic and green onions survived the winter Our hibernating strawberry plant ]]> http://jongela.com/2010/02/our-unmaintained-garden/feed/ 1 Our secret garden http://jongela.com/2008/10/our-secret-garden/ http://jongela.com/2008/10/our-secret-garden/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:07:52 +0000 angela http://jongela.com/?p=93 I know, I know you’ve been dying to see it.  Our little secret garden.  Well, it’s secret no more!!!!!  Behold, our garden!

We put all our organic scraps in here (egg shells, peels, skins, etc.) Yum! Baby carrots This is Jon's favorite Either it's not giving up any berries or the birds find them before we do Green onion! Lettuce ]]> http://jongela.com/2008/10/our-secret-garden/feed/ 3