My Chicago Garden

I couldn't wait for our pressure canner to arrive so I went and purchased about 5 pounds of cucumbers to make into bread and butter pickles. After canning they are suppose to sit for 7 weeks before eating. Argh!!  I actually wanted to figure out how much 5 pounds (about 12 medium size) would [...]

For the last week my wife and I have been watching a particularly large spider (in our mind) build his web and eat his catch right before our eyes. About a week ago my wife noticed that a spider was building a web below the light above the sliding glass door to our deck/backyard.  [...]

Oooh man! My garden got trashed last night during a storm. Well part of it anyway.

I lost my big beautiful bell pepper plant that I had not even had a harvest from, my mostly harvested bush beans, the onion crop is in jeopardy, one of the pole been plants was hit and the [...]

Just got back from vacation out in California and the garden has taken off like crazy.  Corn is growing great, beans are ready for harvest and tomatoes are showing promise.  I even had to cut back my basil plant by 50% so the other herbs would have room to grow.

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In 2006 I plan on pulling up at least 500 square feet of grass and nearly doubling the size of the garden to 1000 square feet. We may also pull up another 920 feet of grass for a non-food garden. All depends how much it costs to rent a grass stripper and how much [...]