Karl's Garden Blog

Well, it’s regularly hitting 90 degrees, and all of my other Brassicas have gone bitter. I guess it was just time to do away with the kohlrabi. The first of the Early White Vienna Kohlrabi was harvested, but the stuff I seeded outdoors and had been growing since early March was getting eaten alive by [...]

Weeds are the only thing prospering in the garden right now. The onions are slowly bulbing out, there’s fruit on the pepper plants, and the tomatoes are still working on the whole breeding thing… which is logical, as I disturbed some of the roots of the plants as I’ve been removing cold-season veggies and filling [...]

Well, chalk up another failure for me.
Last year, I planted my tomatoes in May. Yes, in Texas. Yes, I’m an idiot. I did learn my lesson, and after nursing them through the summer, I got a decent harvest up until the first frost. And this year, I started planning and putting the garden together [...]