Forging Time Reflections, Recipes, and Gardening Pontifications

  • Monthly Garden Reflections: Notes to Self

    by Sarah Bialek
    This will be an ongoing series in which I post my monthly reflections using the Monthly Garden Reflection: Notes to Self template over the course o...

  • Growing Figs Indoors

    by Sarah Bialek
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  • Growing Citrus Trees Indoors

    by Sarah Bialek
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  • Growing Avocado Trees Indoors

    by Sarah Bialek
    Since my 7-year-old makes me measure her every week in hopes she will graduate from her booster, she is 49 inches in this photo for scale. Gro...

  • Harvesting Saffron

    by Sarah Bialek
    On October 8th, 2022, I cleaned up this garden bed, pulling back overgrown catmint and creeping jenny to reveal these sweet hidden fall-bloomin...

  • Supporting the Next Generation of Gardeners

    by Sarah Bialek
    Fourth-grade students leaned in to hear about their choices of jobs in the garden from Charlie Love, their committed science teacher. I spent a ...

  • Tomatillo Salsa

    by Sarah Bialek
    Peeled and washed tomatillos ready for the freezer and cooler weather in which to transform them into canned tomatillo salsa There really is...

  • Save Your Seeds

    by Sarah Bialek
    French Marigold seeds from this summer's garden drying on a paper towel. When we left Golden and I had to say goodbye to my former garden, I too...

  • Planting Garlic and Spring-Blooming Bulbs

    by Sarah Bialek
    Interplanting tulip bulbs with garlic bulbs as a deterrent for deer...lol. Like most, I plant my bulbs and garlic together in the Fall. This y...
    Posted in Garlic

  • Fall Clean-Up

    by Sarah Bialek
    Clearing the crab apple branches from over the sidewalk offered the materials for a quickly woven door wreath. Early in October, I was aware I ...

  • Succession Plant and Protect Greens

    by Sarah Bialek
    Leaf lettuce from our summer potager. This season-extension technique is pretty straightforward, but the one I often forget. When there is so mu...

  • Bring In the Garden Veggies

    by Sarah Bialek
    Tidy Treats Hybrid Cherry Tomato in my kitchen garden on the deck in early September. It is early October as I finish up this post. We have yet ...