Happy Independence Days everyone! With the weather still acting…well…not very winter-like, I spent a little time last weekend watering our fruit trees. The terrifying thing is that they’re already trying to bud out. Why is this terrifying? Well, because we still have a good three months of freezing and possible…
Happy Independence days everyone! Here are this weeks accomplishments… Plant something: 1 flat of greens (Sassy Salad, Micro Greens & Spinach) Yellow Taxi Tomatoes Cherokee Purple Tomatoes Roma Tomatoes Brandywine Tomatoes I’ve got visions of tomatoes dancing in my head… Harvest something: 1 oz mixed greens 15 eggs Preserve something: …
Here’s my very first Independence Days post! I’ve found that I’ve struggled a bit with what should actually be written here for a couple of reasons. 1) There are things we have gotten in the habit of doing and now we just do them without really thinking about it. This is a…
With a full year of really gardening under our belts (we’re like newborns, I swear, there’s so much to learn!), we’re trying to figure out how to grow even more veggies in our limited space! I recently borrowed How to Grow More Vegetables by John Jeavons from my friends at…
When we first set up our grow lights, we planted a few flats of greens, sprouts, micro greens and wheat grass just to see what would happen. Well, it’s actually been really great! We’ve harvested enough for several meals (salads and greens for sandwiches) and have juiced wheat grass several…
Well, we have been officially freezing’ our buns for the last month, but the real challenge has popped up over the last several days! With temps falling below zero a few nights in a row (which seems to be turning into a new norm, here…at least after last February’s record…
With the sun shining brightly above us and no more freezing temperatures forecast for at least the next several days, ice crystals and snow seem so very far away…but I know they’re coming (and am hopeful they’ll make for some more beautiful photos)! Well, after much family discussion, we’ve decided to…
Happy Monday everyone! This week brought us the last of the acorn and butternut squash and blue corn, many more tomatoes and lemon cucumbers and the first of the fall kale. Oh, and I can’t forget the single, tiny jalapeno. I am trying to find my balance between my new…