An Experiment in Scotch

I never get them planted early enough it seems and this year was no dif­fer­ent. They need to be in the ground by June 30th and while I was two weeks ear­lier than last year, I still didn’t get them planted until right around the mid­dle of July this year. The bru­tal sum­mer stunted some …

I pulled up all the black-eyed peas today along with quite a few weeds and some Mex­i­can Heather that was amaz­ingly well rooted. I planted 41 cloves of gar­lic evenly divided between Russ­ian Red and plain old white from the gro­cery store. I still have sev­eral heads from this summer’s har­vest, just haven’t done that …

I’ve had a gar­den for a long time but this is the first year I’m grow­ing my own plants trans­plants from seeds. At $2–3 a plant from the local nurs­ery, I usu­ally end up spend­ing $50–100 in plants. I came up with the grand scheme to grow enough trans­plants for myself and to sell the …

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 …