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Last Seasons Clean Up

Last Seasons Clean Up

What happens when you put off cleaning up parts of the yard?  Yeah...you wind up being forced to do it before you get to put some new seeds in the ground.The over-sized bean trellis we created last year utilizing two of our beds and the top of our portal was beautiful and very productive. However, it's also incredibly difficult to…
May 8, 2013
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday, everyone!Well, as I mentioned yesterday, the cold is toying with us!  We were forecasted to hit freezing temps last weekend, but alas, nothing happened.  I'm guessing this will be our last large harvest before bringing in all the green tomatoes in the next week or so and the potatoes that we're hoping have matured under cover, but I…
October 8, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday, everyone!I promise we harvested more than a couple of peppers, a melon and a few tomatoes!Happy Hot PeppersOur Mystery Melon!  Tomato Bounty:(top row) Italian Heirloom, Sweet Small Cherry, Bi-Color Cherry, Orange Flesh Purple Smudge, Cherokee Purple(bottom row) Yellow Taxi, Black From Tula, RomaUnfortunately, due to busy-ness, those are the only three photographs that were taken of this weeks…
October 1, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!August is rushing by in a bit of a blur.  Have you ever heard the saying that goes something like, "life is what happens when you're busy making other plans"?  Yeah...that's the kind of the month I've had so far and there seems to be no end in sight! The good news is, there's lots of happy things…
August 20, 2012
Garden Happiness(es)

Garden Happiness(es)

Round two of the snap peas is much smaller than Round One, but we already have a few flowers and one actual pea :-)The Blue Corn is coming along nicely!  This is my first year trying this variety...my fingers are officially crossed!All of the tomatoes I started from seed in one of our raised beds are turning into giants and…
June 23, 2011
The bad, the ugly and the upside…

The bad, the ugly and the upside…

Sometimes, when I write a blog, I want to only show the good, beautiful, happiness that is happening with the yard or the chickens.  Don't ask me why, maybe it's just in my nature.  However, it's not the whole truth and I know that I enjoy reading of other urban homesteading struggles because those who share their struggles are telling…
May 15, 2011
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