In the Garden

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Morning Wanderings and Radish Seeds

Morning Wanderings and Radish Seeds

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 listen to the soft, sleepy coos of the chickens, I…
June 28, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

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 wait and see what happens with the other three experimental Happy…
June 25, 2012
Honey Lemon Apple Jam

Honey Lemon Apple Jam

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 a little while ago that our apples were looking a little…
June 24, 2012
Harvesting Turnip Seeds

Harvesting Turnip Seeds

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 year from over-wintered veggies (turnips, beets, carrots, kale and radishes), the…
June 13, 2012
Independence Days

Independence Days

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!  Anyhow, here's a peek at some of what we've been up…
May 11, 2012
Leaf Miners

Leaf Miners

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 different species of insects...usually moths and fliesThey live in and eat the…
May 8, 2012