Happy Winter Gardening at CommonWealth Urban Farms
Winter in the Garden Yep, it finally feels like winter! Contrary to popular assumption, winter is a great time to garden in Oklahoma. Indeed, cold weather prompts many plants to […]
Zinnia Power
I confess. I used to detest zinnias. Bright, bold and brassy, zinnias are a neon type of flower. But when I first started growing cut flowers, I found zinnias to be the top […]
Tomatoes and More Tomatoes!
IMHO, summer = tomatoes. Tomatoes! We got ’em. We have an abundance of both slicers and cherry tomatoes this week. It’s the season for sliced tomatoes drizzled with olive oil and […]
This Week at CommonWealth: Tomatoes & Flowering Fireworks
Ah, tomatoes! July is tomato month. Pictured here is Early Girl, a tomato we appreciate for being both early and flavorful. Most tomato plants take a break when hot weather really sets in; Juliet and Verona are mini-roma […]
Leaky Buckets & Economic Independence
With the 4th of July upon us, I keep thinking about an article I read from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. “In the leaky bucket analogy for local economies, money flows into […]
Be Happy & Eat Your Veggies
If they’re really GOOD veggies, they will make you happy! Come on by our Farm Stand on Saturday morning. We’re getting rave reviews on our new potatoes, both the Yukon […]
This Week at CommonWealth: Bountiful
Rain again! Someone turned the spigot off and the heat on, a couple weeks ago. We are so grateful to have rain again. Nothing like the garden to give you […]
This Week at CommonWealth: Garlic & Snapdragons
Thursday was garlic harvest day. Miraculously, the bulbs didn’t rot away during the month of rain-of-biblical-proportions. Although they came out of the soil with plenty of mud attached, they’ll clean […]
Rain, Mud and Fairy Wings
Sara and I, along with a few hundred mosquitoes, got our tomato plants caged today. Afterwards, as I was sloshing through the rice paddies – er, the urban farm, I […]
This Week at CommonWealth: Snapdragons & Green Onions
Farm Stand: Saturdays from 9 am to noon CommonWealth Urban Farms, 3310 N. Olie, OKC Lots of yummy veggies this week! Our green onions have been particularly delicious all through the […]