Raising Chickens and Urban Gardening
Note: This post was updated in September 2021. With the garden planted, I’m eagerly awaiting the fruits of my labor: the first tiny, pea-sized tomato, a wisp of a bean, a green button of a pepper. Soon we will be enjoying these fruits and with a little seed-saving, we’ll have more to grow next year — and the year after…
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Summer is finally here in north Idaho, and so far, the tomato crop is looking good. The normally cold and wet June weather proved to be mostly sunny and warm, giving way to lots of blossoms and fruit set on the tomatoes. Yay! Still, we’ve experienced a couple of cooler than usual nights recently – some places saw temperatures in…
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Spring is such a fickle time of year in north Idaho. One day we are basking in delightfully warm 70 degree temperatures; a tempting taste of the summer to come. The next day we are greeted with hail, a whipping wind, and 45 degrees. While these swings in temperature rarely faze cool weather crops like peas or spinach, it can spell total disaster…
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Finally, it’s the season for plant sales and nursery openings and gardeners are eager to get going – plant list in one hand, trowel in the other! It’s difficult not to fill up your wagon with all the goodies that are offered this time of year — and if you don’t buy them now, they might not be there later…
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