Des Moines Garden 11/23/06 - Chickens Give Thanks

After my front yard garden was literally cleaned out (see post “Divide and Conquer 10/8/06″), I sowed Tyfon seeds, which Rose Marie had sent me, as a winter cover crop. I confess that I did not keep up with the watering, and we were in a drought. Some seeds sprouted and the first set (cotyledon) [...]

Des Moines Garden - The Big Dig

It takes a lot of work to clear a mature garden.

Keane - Garden help

Des Moines Garden - The Beginning

We are starting here a sequence of posts about the Des Moines garden project. Cathy Wilkinson Barash will update these posts later.  I am posting the pictures now.

This shows the front yard in full growth.
Keane - Garden help.

Eggs & The Vernal Equinox

Cathy Wilkinson Barash, our friend in Des Moines, tells me that eggs will stand upright on their base for several hours around the vernal equinox. Urban myth, pagan rite, or perhaps like Cathy you’ve been astounding friends for years with this feat. She says it only works at the arrival of spring. I’ll be taking [...]

Des Moines Garden “Winter”

I chatted with Cathy Barash for an update on the Des Moines garden today. She tells us: “Winter has finally arrived and we had two snows within a week and now have six inches on the ground. This is finally giving plants some protection and temperature consistency since in the last couple of months temperatures [...]

Des Moines Garden

One focus of this blog is community gardening and encouraging participation in the Garden Writers Association program “Plant A Row For The Hungry”(PAR). My friend, Cathy Wilkinson Barash, author of “Edible Flowers From Garden To Palate” and other gardening books is president of The Garden Writer’s Foundation which helps to support and promote PAR.
Cathy lives [...]