Hello readers! My best intentions to write regularly always fall apart when life happens and I have things to write about. We have been steadily getting ready for winter, like …
Harvesting & Preserving
It has been a whirlwind summer. The garden went in, with many lessons learned through the whole season. In early July, we got enough of the fencing done to put …
Doesn’t seem like the end of summer is just around the corner, but then again, the gray and rain we’ve gotten the past few days helps get over the weirdness …
[image links are broken after several hosting moves, hoping to find backups somewhere] I just harvested enough green beans for dinner tonight. I didn’t even know we had more than …
I hope everyone is having a good Memorial Day (and weekend)! We ran out of homemade jam early May and I could not find storebought that didn’t have HFCS (we …
[image links are broken after several hosting moves, hoping to find backups somewhere] I really did mess up with the tomatoes :lol They’re all falling all over the place and …
Wow. I haven’t even set foot in the garden in 3-4 days because of the heat then rain and I was thrilled by what I found. Our first red roma …
So much for planning on weeding today. A big storm came in last night and will last all week. With the amount of rain we’re going to get, I think …
I couldn’t stand it any longer, I had to pick the 3 big zucchini :lol Going to make some zucchini bread and maybe a treat for the kids and shred …
I thought it might be a good idea to check out the taters that were getting flooded over and over. The bottom 4 plants, the ones at the end of …
Some random images and thoughts on drying parsley for the first time. I’ll put it all into one post at the end if it turns out well! Started out with …
I couldn’t wait to get out and get pictures…I’m like a kid opening presents with this garden :lol Here’s a pea pod: One of the ripening strawberries: And the tomatoes …