Every morning when I wake up (whether it be by the alarm or by the suns gentle rise behind the Sangres), I make myself a cup of black tea with milk & honey and take a little walk through the garden. I check for growth and blossoms, I harvest, I…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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!…
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A couple of weeks ago this started happening to our beet leaves… The damage wasn’t everywhere, but it was definitely an issue. So, after help from fellow bloggers after this post and a little research, this is what I’ve learned about leaf miners: They are actually the larvae of several…
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Happy Monday everyone! Slowly but surely we’re pulling out our over-wintered veggies, sowing seeds and transplanting a few tomatoes here and there. It’s not really time yet, but all the forecasts say our temps will stay above freezing past our average last frost date, so while I’m taking a bit…
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Well, after a super warm winter and their relocation to the back yard, we finally got into our bees yesterday. While they have adapted nicely to their new spot and have looked healthy from afar, it was honestly way passed time for us to get into the actual hive. So,…