County Gardening

A week ago I featured radishes in my 6 on Saturday post; watermelon radishes grow quickly, love the cool late summer/early autumn weather, they’re huge and when sliced resemble watermelons with their green thick outer skin and pink centre. I have an abundan...

It’s Thanksgiving Day in Canada. Aside from the usual things (family, friends, relative good health, a warm bed at night and food in the refrigerator), I’m also giving thanks that I live on a part of the continent that usually escapes the worst ravages mother natures throws out, global warming induced or not. I’m reading this morning about devastation and flooding on the west...

There were dire warning Saturday and Sunday about imminent frosty nights and protect your tender garden things. I, however, generally don’t protect tender things in the fall. I breath a sigh of relief that I no longer have to water them or dead-head or check for bad bugs. I anticipate with glee more time to…I don’t know…read…dust…sleep…before opening...

It’s a watermelon! Nope! It’s a watermelon radish! I planted seeds on August 15 after reading that radishes are a cool weather crop; since I missed the early spring planting window I needed to wait until the end of summer. And it worked! I sowed the seeds in the garlic bed, a few weeks after garlic harvest, mixing a bit of manure into the raised bed soil first, and look at th...