http://suburbansharecroppers.today.com Harvest Life Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:02:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Perhaps starting a garden blog in Oct. was not the best idea.  Perhaps I'm not nearly as scintillating a writer as I thought....sigh.   Either way,  this has been a good start to our budding business and we will now be on a blog  controlled by us....whew.  By all!  http://suburbansharecroppers.today.com/2008/12/27/finished/ Too lazy to post twice about this (hey it's almost Christmas)....read about our freezing weather and how it affected our garden  here ....thanks!   http://suburbansharecroppers.today.com/2008/12/20/freeze/   Our dear daughter came running into our room at midnight to inform us that it was hailing outside.  Her desire, as is all our kids, is to have it snow here....something it has not done significantly for ten years.  Every once in a while we get a bit of frost ... http://suburbansharecroppers.today.com/2008/12/16/rain-and-hail/   Yesterday was the first of December (son's birthday...yea!) and I planted another pkg. of lettuce seed.  This is the first time I've sowed a second crop of greens and tho it is quite foggy and a bit chilly outside I'm hoping that some of what went into the ground will ... http://suburbansharecroppers.today.com/2008/12/02/more-lettuce/   Well, we are having a bit of an issue with powdery mildew on our ornamentals. These are our little calendulas growing by the broccoli out in the front yard garden.  We have had such a warm fall (see garlic post :) and powdery mildew is especially prevalent in these particular ... http://suburbansharecroppers.today.com/2008/11/24/powdery-mildew/