October Garden Update
The autumn months in the garden are almost as busy as early spring. Although the mornings are cool, the afternoons are often quite warm at this time of year, and with the approaching rainy season, this is a perfect time to be planting in the garden. Ideally, most...
Tomato Harvest 2011
Of everything grown in the kitchen garden throughout the year, no harvest is more anticipated than that of our heirloom tomatoes. Each year, even when schedules and daily life are too hectic to plant anything else, we make time to plant tomatoes. A summer without...
The Sunken Garden
There are many beautiful examples of sunken gardens to be found, but our own sunken garden, directly in front of the house, was not a consequence of intentional garden design. When we were first considering purchasing this property, the most evident features of the...
Our Great Heirloom Squash Experiment
This year we devoted an area toward the north end of the orchard to growing an assortment of heirloom summer, and winter squash. The intent was to see which varieties performed the best here, when compared side by side, under the same growing conditions. With our...
Long-Horn Bees
This may be remembered as the year of the bee at Curbstone Valley. It started when we installed a few hives of honey bees on the farm this spring, but we also greatly understand the importance of the native bees that frequent our crops and flowers. Research has...
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