Or, as Crockett calls it, the “Brown Gold Cadillac.” I’ve never waxed poetic about poop and compost before, but if it will help our plants grow, I’m more than happy to call it brown gold. This composter is easy, cheap to build, and good at turning plant waste into fertilizer. Continue reading
March in the Victory Garden
We’ve been looking forward to March for months. We kept getting seed catalogs in the mail and dreaming about actually being able to plant something. Hooray for March, you can start planting now! Several seeds will need to be started indoors and a few can be planted straight in the garden or a cold frame. We aren’t planting everything from the March section of Crockett’s Victory Garden this year (we are beginners, after all), but we planted several staples. Didn’t get started by March? All of this can be done in April too. Continue reading
Posted in March
Tagged broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, leeks, lettuce, onions, peas, spinach
Leave a comment
Garden Beginnings
Whenever Gordon’s dad talks about gardening, he talks about Crockett’s Victory Garden. As far as Paul is concerned and as evidenced by successful decades of gardening, Crockett’s is the final word in how, when, and what to plant. So Gordon grew up looking at Crockett’s book and dreaming of a garden of his own. When we finally moved out of our tiny basement apartment and into a house with plenty of yard, he went to work buying his own copy of Crockett’s book and looking everywhere for the episodes of the TV show by the same name. Continue reading
Posted in January
Leave a comment
Gordon's Victory Garden 