Green Thumbs: Gardening in Northern Utah

This poor, neglected blog.  It mimics our poor, neglected garden.  This was a slow gardening year.  We had such a long winter – we had good snow in late May.  The baby was born in mid-May, and we were still planting in August.  Not good!  We brought most of our tomatoes into the house to ripen in the basement.  50 pounds of green tomatoes.  Every single tomato turned red, but unfortunately, since they were in the basement, we missed some here and there.  About 25% were tossed because we got to them too late.

It’s only mid-December and I’m already out of good salsa.  We are going to add several garden boxes in the spring (each 4X8 feet) and I’m determined to have one heck of a salsa garden out there.  We didn’t get pumpkins growing this year, either.

As soon as January greets us, I’m going to start planning the garden in earnest.  We are absolutely doing a grow light this spring – building it ourselves to be cost effective.  I have not had one tomato plant make it from seed, and I am DETERMINED this year to make it happen!