This is a blog of my gardening activities for 2013, and as it turns out, beyond.
I plan to post most of my garden-related stuff for the year, from ordering seeds to the final harvest and putting things to bed for the winter. Although I also grow flowers, I am mostly interested in vegetables and fruit, such as you can see in this photo from 2012.
Why gardening? I suppose you can take the boy off the farm, but you can’t take the farm out of the boy. Compared to my other hobbies, gardening is fairly inexpensive. A few tools last a lifetime and seeds and fertilizer don’t cost all that much. Gardening is the one hobby that I stick with year after year. Of course, the seasons keep changing so procrastination isn’t really an option. If it’s spring, I need to be getting the garden ready and planting.
I live in central Pennsylvania, USA, on the border of plant hardiness zones 6a and 6b, which means that winter temperatures aren’t expected to go below -10°F (-23°C). There is more information about hardiness zones at the USDA website.
The soil here contains a lot of clay. I’ve added organic material (peat moss, compost) as well as some sand over the years to improve the drainage in my garden beds.
Posts are announced on my twitter account, @BrianBreczinski.
If you think my experiences can help you on your own garden adventure, you may wish to start at my 2nd post, “Planning“, and proceed through the year(s).
No one is paying me for what I write or sending me free products. I don’t receive any advertising revenue or ask for donations. I just write about what I’ve tried and how well it worked out.
I’ve made over 300 posts and am still going. These days, I am concentrating on new material rather than repeat the basics that I covered in the first year. I never thought this would be so time consuming, from taking and editing photos to trying to find just the right words, although whether I succeed in that is another matter.
All material © 2013-2020 Brian M. Breczinski. Not to be used without my express permission.
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I love love love gardening. I grow perennials mostly. But the best tasting tomatoes I’ve ever had I grew in a pot on my back porch. Have a bountiful season. Love the background. Cheers.
Thanks! Tomatoes must be the number one motivation for vegetable gardening. Well, they are for me anyway.
I nominated you for the Liebster Award. Check it out here,
Thanks, TNG! I’ll get to work on paying it forward.
Thanks for all your help! Here’s the culprit: http://bugguide.net/node/view/615654/bgimage
Well, I wasn’t actually all that helpful, as it turns out! Yet another insect behavior I hadn’t seen before.
Well, I appreciate you being willing to help! Don’t worry, I’m sure I’ll come across more things I’ll need help identifying. 🙂
Thank you for following my blog, I hope you will enjoy what I will post in the future. I thinks the post “planning” is indeed very interesting ! I didn’t know we also have to rotate our vegetables like the farmers do in the fields. Well it makes sense !
I’m not sure how useful it is to rotate crops in my small vegetable garden, but it doesn’t hurt to try, right?