Watch My Food Grow

Truth be told, I’m not much of a farmer. Fortunately, I didn’t know any vegetable gardeners better than me in South Florida when I started this project. So, I was secure, if naive, in my pursuit. A few weeks after starting my backyard vegetable garden, the future cousin-in-law of a friend, Kara, emailed about my [...]

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A friend of the family gave us some mulberry plants a year or so ago. They were less than 18 inches tall and haphazardly tossed in pots. We planted them along the fence and figured they would die soon enough. Mulberry Bushes Turning into Mulberry Trees The mulberries are now 20 feet tall and their [...]

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For more than a month, the most visibly growing vegetables in my backyard garden were the broccoli plants. They grew and grew. Almost too big. They are now casting a shadow over my red leaf lettuce. However, as big as they got, I never saw anything that actually looked like the broccoli that I was [...]

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I’m not the biggest gardening geek on the block any longer and that is saying a lot given that I have live streaming video of my tomatoes. To your right, please see my newest garden technology find, the EasyBloom Plant Sensor. EasyBloom Plant Sensor and Educated Garden Advisor Step One: Buy the EasyBloom Plant Sensor. [...]

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The question, what’s for dinner, takes on new meaning when you have a backyard vegetable garden. “What’s For Dinner?” Requires Trip to Backyard Garden When you have your own vegetable garden, you never really know what you’re going to eat until you see what is available. Some vegetables are always available such as tomatoes (of [...]

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Lunch is served, backyard garden style. Before: The Raw Materials After: A Yummy BLT Sandwich It’s Not About the Garden Lance Armstrong wrote an entire book to tell us It’s Not About the Bike. (Of course, don’t tell that to Trek Bikes, a major sponsor. They dumped millions of dollars into designing the most perfect [...]

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My father-in-law, Devon, was kind enough to send me a copy of All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew. I have heard of this book before but didn’t realize it was so darn popular. Everyone seems to have heard about Square Foot Gardening. In fact if everyone who bought or read his book had [...]

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Don’t be frontin’. You know you like the Pussycat Dolls and strawberries. —Farmer Matt

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Look at that cucumber grow! While attending the South Florida Fair last month, I stopped by the Broward County Farm Bureau booth. They were giving away free packages of cucumber seeds. When starting my garden, I got actual plants, not seeds. So, the cucumbers are the first thing I have ever planted and grown from [...]

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The moment I finished my initial raised vegetable garden and got the plants in, I knew its 4′x8′ size was too small. I needed more space. What I Did Not Get Planted I wanted watermelon, ripe by the fourth of July. I wanted cucumbers and snap beans. Jan Norris surprised me with two strawberry plants [...]

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