Happy Monday everyone! I missed you all last week since we went out of town for a bit of a vacation! We’re back now though, and so happy to be home and able to harvest all of our veggies while they’re at their peak! That means it’s catch up time…here…
Happy Monday everyone! Thankfully, the past week finally brought us some much needed rain! Not only has it helped to calm our spirits a bit, but the garden has loved the respite form the heat as well as the moisture from the skies. Rain water must have some magic in…
What a difference a week makes, ha? It amazes me how quickly fruit grows when left to its own devices! Last weekend, after harvesting small amounts of apricots for over a week, I finally had enough to make my very first apricot jam! While I was at it, I made…
Happy Monday everyone! Things are, happily, continuing their slow roll out of the garden and into the kitchen! The Yellow Taxi Tomatoes are slowing their production and there are only a handful of them left on the plants. It’s OK though, because there are many other varieties that will follow…
Happy Monday everyone! This week brought a mixture of harvests, including the first jalapeno and the first Happy Hot Peppers! Dave, I’m hoping you might have some insight/shared curiosity about why ours went straight from green to red instead of the pretty orange you’ve gotten in the past. Very interesting…I guess we’ll…
With our warm spring and zero late frosts, our fruit trees are doing wonderfully this year! Despite the cherry fiasco, we are anticipating a hefty harvest of apples, apricots and pears this summer and fall…well, as hefty as one might expect from a couple of young trees 😉 We noticed…
This is me, in all my gardening glory (hmmm…) holding up the biggest turnip-gone-to-seed-space-hog ever! Never did I think that one turnip would get so incredibly big! Well, not the actual turnip, but all the foliage that went along with it! Of all the seeds we’re attempting to save this…
Happy Friday, everyone!!! I’ve continued to hope that the warm weather will stick around and have been slowly transplanting hardened off veggies into either the ground or their permanent pots. I have to continuously fight the urge to put everything in the ground right now, but we are very close!…