Category Archives: Gardening

A Good Day’s Harvest

14 ears of corn, 3-4 tomatoes, 2 cucumbers, a handful of serranos and jalapenos, 6 ounces of yellow tomatoes and a random eggplant. Also: Scooter has been hell on the wildlife this spring, more than any other year so when I found this little guy hidden in our Copper Canyon daisy, I knew he was …

June 30, 2009 – 8:50 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Gardening, Random | Comments (2)

Summer Garden Update

It’s getting damn hot lately so it’s a lot easier to write about the garden than actually, you know, garden. So while it’s not technically summer yet, here’s a little taste of what’s been going in The Experiment’s home garden. For the first time, I’m tracking yields as a way to objectively compare changes and …

June 14, 2009 – 10:27 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Gardening | Comments (0)

Fresh From The Garden

The first head of cabbage came out of the garden this morning with 3 more to follow soon. Tough to beat fresh cabbage the day you cut it. It will go into a stirfry today and then probably coleslaw for the rest of the week.

May 10, 2009 – 9:32 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Gardening | Tagged | Comments (0)

Rain Barrel Update

Well we had a little storm roll through Wylie this morning and there is good news and bad news. The good news is that 3/10ths of an inch of rain translated into about 40ish gallons of rainwater in the collection system. That tells me we don’t have nearly enough collection capacity but for now, I’m …

March 24, 2009 – 7:09 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Gardening | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Weekend Project

For the past two weekends, we’ve been working on a rain barrel project after seeing an article in the Dallas Morning News about them. When we first moved to our house, we bought a trash can and stuck it under a rain spout which was ok for awhile but was decidedly low tech and eventually …

March 22, 2009 – 8:39 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Gardening | Tagged , | Comments (7)

In Search Of A Better Garden

Back in November, I wrote about my efforts to improve the productivity of my veggie gardens by raising the beds and drastically improving the soil. However, in North Texas, all the good soil in the world does you no good if you can’t get consistent moisture on the garden. With that in mind, I engineered …

February 17, 2009 – 7:30 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Gardening | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Camellia Blooms

Our transplanted Camellia bloomed this week, apparently in appreciation for bringing it in from the cold. We dug up two of them from a badly neglected part of our back yard bed and put them in pots. They seem to be doing OK but only this one is really going to put on blooms this …

December 8, 2008 – 11:09 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Gardening | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Garden Redux (Take Two)

As many of my 3 readers will know, we’ve had a vegetable garden on the south side of our house for a little over a year now. We got quite a bit out of it the last two years but I wasn’t completely happy with the production. Lots of things did well but things like …

November 30, 2008 – 1:20 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Gardening | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Our Steps Towards Self-Sufficiency Through Squash

I haven’t written much about the garden of late and since I’ve got nothing else on a Sunday, I figured some pictures were in order. This first one is the view of our garden which has been quite a success this year, particularly if you like yellow squash and zucchini. In the far background, there …

July 20, 2008 – 8:43 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Gardening, Random | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Gardening

If you’re following along at home, it’s time to plant that early spring garden here in the Metroplex.

February 12, 2008 – 6:47 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Gardening | Comments (0)