What this is
Most gardens are remembered wrong. You swear the tomatoes went in earlier last year, that the peppers never did well in that bed, that it rained more in June. Then you check, and none of it is true.
So this one gets logged. Every sowing, transplant, watering, harvest and failure, with dates attached — not as a chore, but because a garden you can actually look back at is a different thing to grow in.
The ground
Not one plot but a scatter of them, each with its own light, its own soil, and its own opinions about what will tolerate it.
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In the ground
Yard and pasture beds, front and back, including a stretch of old pasture that was never meant to grow vegetables and does anyway.
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In containers
Bags, troughs, and pots worked across the deck, the drive and the stable — sun chased around the property as the season moves.
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Under lights
Five shelves of starts and overwintering stock indoors, which is how a Zone 5b season gets stretched at both ends.
Coming to this page
The garden log itself — what is growing right now, when it went in, what came out of it, and photographs through the season. It is being published carefully and in stages rather than all at once, which is the slower way round and the right one.