Giant Veggie Gardener
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Giant Veggie Gardener is a blog by an 'artisan farmer' who is a organic vegetable grower and practices sustainable methods. Shares methods in growing, harvesting, processing and cooking.
Giant Veggie Gardener
2w ago
April is here. Where have I been? I had 2 rotator cuff tendons and bicep tendon surgery on Dec 12 with the idea I will be gardening by June (and flyfishing too). The bicep tendon is attached to a bolt that was screwed into my humerus bone. It’s been a long hard recovery-I am in ..read more
Giant Veggie Gardener
3M ago
Hotbeds have been used for hundreds of years. Hotbeds are basically the same as a cold frame, but use manure with compost as a heat source in early spring. In France, when transportation was done by horses, not cars, people would take the stall litter which was a mix of manure and straw for heat ..read more
Giant Veggie Gardener
4M ago
When winter days are less than 10 hours a day in length, plants in the ground slow down or stop growing altogether. I’d like to think that the plants are sleeping. Eliot Coleman, who wrote The Winter Harvest Handbook, calls this time the Persephone Period. Our Persephone period here in Santa Fe is from Thanksgiving ..read more
Giant Veggie Gardener
5M ago
I thought you might enjoy this video I took of my veggie garden in early August 2023. When I see this video now, the garden looks pretty good. I just want to see some GREEN now instead all this white snow but I know we need as much snow as we can get due to ..read more
Giant Veggie Gardener
5M ago
So by now you have either cleaned up your garden or hopefully finishing up. I’m in the latter camp. I took out all the tomatoes and their cages before the ground freezes which historically is sometime in December. If I had waited, they would freeze in the ground and I would have not gotten them ..read more
Giant Veggie Gardener
6M ago
Hello Folks! Where has the summer gone? I haven’t written since August and I think it’s due to the HEAT, drought and NO MONSOONS. I became depressed because I had to use so much water to keep everything alive. And even then everything struggled in the heat anyways with enough water including me! Plus I ..read more
Giant Veggie Gardener
9M ago
I promised my followers that I would tell you when I took my row covers off the tomato plants. I did this today. Here is a video I took on July 18, 2020 but basically looks the same as today. I have heard from several sources that we might not get a monsoon pattern setting ..read more
Giant Veggie Gardener
9M ago
GARDEN CLASS FOLLOWUP Here is the handout with the class notes from Tuesday: 2023 FALL VEGETABLE PLANTING I also had someone ask me about the 2 Perennial Chard-Spinach and Perennial Arugula which is called Sylvetta that I talked about. You can google them to see which seed companies might still have some for this year ..read more