The first 18 years of my life were spent on our family’s dairy farm northern Wisconsin. My mother, father and in fact our whole family spent a lot of time producing food for our meals. We had a large vegetable garden, along with an orchard that provided apples, plums, and grapes. We grew strawberries, raspberries, […]
Archive for the ‘Edibles’ Category
Growing Swiss Chard Indoors
Last summer, in an effort to thwart the many rabbits that inhabit our yard, I planted some Rainbow Swiss Chard in a large pot instead of in our usual garden. The chard came up and grew nicely and the rabbits didn’t seem to notice the plants at all. They grew so well that I was […]
Fall Garden Crops
This year in the Channel 6 Garden, we pulled out some of our crops that were finished on August 1 and replanted the same vegetables immediately. Sharon Morrisey, the horticulturist in charge had us write that second planting date onto the row markers so we could judge the timing of our crops. The items we […]
Straw Bale Gardening
This year at the start of the season in the Channel 6 Garden our leader Sharon Morrisey, decided to try straw bales as new container for some of our plants. Sharon said it was a way to garden if you have bad or contaminated soil and we were going to try some as an experiment. […]
Multi-Purpose Garden
This year as a master gardener volunteer, I have been part of a team that meets on Thursday mornings to plant, weed and do general upkeep on the various food crops and perennial beds in the Channel 6 garden. This location is a project of the UW-Extension Southeast Wisconsin Master Gardeners and our group is […]
Growing Food in Shade
We all know that garden crops like sunshine, but sometimes our available space has more shade than sun. My first attempt at growing vegetables in the shade was at our previous home. We had a basic city yard with about an 8 foot space between our house and the neighbors. It got only a couple […]