2014 has proven to be a challenging year for us in the garden department. We started out with the best of intentions and a bazillion seeds and ended up with failed germination rates, poor purchased and gifted transplants, loads of distractions, pest problems up the wazoo, and a sudden (though…
Alright, who can believe it’s already August?! August has always, as a mother and a summer camp/after school program manager, signaled the end of summer…until now… Now that my eldest is grown and out of the house and my youngest is years from a school bell…Now that my job revolves…
Welp, last Friday I finally spent some real, glorious, much needed time out in the garden! Sprout happily gnawed on fresh beans and I just puttered around until we were both hot, hungry and tired. It was absolutely divine! During my time outside, I finally decided to give our poor…
The garden in late July of years past has been a bit of a beast. We tend to find ourselves at the tail end or smack dab in the middle of our monsoon season and, truly, there’s no better magic than water that falls from the sky in the form…
OK, right off the bat, this is super late getting posted and I know it! The beginning of the month exploded on me with a last minute trip to visit family in Missouri that wasn’t planned until late June! So, while I was able to record our Farm Tour for…
Well, it’s official, we’re off to our slowest harvest season since we began tracking harvests a few years ago. I blame all of the transition we’ve faced since last fall (yes, I’m really going back that far) for our lack of bounty in the garden. You know, lack of time,…
Walking around the garden last night, I was reminded of how far we’ve come in just a few short years. From a barren, rock filled, super hot-trash-and-glass-and-juniper-filled 1/8 acre to a living, breathing, mini oasis…sometimes it’s easy to forget how much blood, sweat and tears have gone into our little…
Have you ever seen rhubarb flowers? They usually show up on established rhubarb in the spring and they are gorgeous. Gorgeous and harmful, unfortunately. We encountered our first rhubarb flowers a few years ago and, not knowing what it was or what to do about it, we turned to one of…