My Chicago Garden

Man! I can’t win this year.  Two days of below freezing have completely obliterated my poor little tomatoe plants.

You can see the row of 3 tomatoes in the first picture.  Yeah…that’s them…the brown lumps of goo. Just two days ago they were busting out of their store pots begging to be let [...]

1) What are you using for the seed potatoes?

I maintain a planting diary that is fairly up to date with the latest information about the garden. If you check the diary you’ll see that I planted Red Cloud potatoes and Kennebec.  The Red Cloud’s I got from Moose Tubers (a Fedco company) and [...]

Well it happened.  In preparation for this weekends garden activities, I put my seedlings out in the cold frame to harden them off with a bit of outside weather a few days ago.  And with all the hustle and bustle I forgot they were there!!!  They got fried when I forgot to lift the [...]

It looks like the last frost of the season might just be in the next few days.  Which means the next weekend will be the first plausible time to get the garden work finalized and get some direct sow seeds in the ground.  Current forecasts show a trend upwards for temperature but be ready [...]

Here at our house we decide when spring is by the first sunday it is warm enough to eat hot dogs at Scooby’s outside under the umbrellas (on North Ave in West Chicago). Well yesterday was that day! Yeah!!!! The girls even spent some time down in the creek behind the house. Melissa [...]