Prepping for Winter

Prepping for Winter – Harvesting Vegetables

This weekend it was rather cool.  On Sunday night, it got below 30 degrees – yikes!  Since there was frost on the horizon, I harvested a lot of tomatoes, some peppers and two small zucchinis on Saturday.  Of course, I waited until the last minute to start get ready for winter. I pulled the stakes, support […]

Seed and Bulb Ideas

Bulb Ideas for Onion and Shallots

For the last several years, I’ve been planting my garlic cloves and onion sets in the Fall.  This is the first year that I am trying shallots.  In Pittsburgh, it is close to impossible to find shallots and different types of onions in the Fall.  Last year I only found yellow onion sets. As a […]

General Gardening

Harvest and Store Celeriac

Harvesting celeriac in the Fall is so easy.  You just loosen the soil around the roots and pull it.  Celeriac does take 100 to 120 days to mature so you will have to wait until Fall to harvest. If you plant quite a few celeriac plants, you can leave some in the ground to harvest […]