Happy Monday everyone! Something very exciting happened this week! We harvested our first three tomatoes!!! Yep, you read that right…two Yellow Taxi Tomatoes and one cherry tomato! Oh man! I guess that starting those seeds under the grow lights in February really paid off 🙂 We also harvested our first…
Happy Monday everyone! I couldn’t wait to announce our very first strawberries as they were harvested last week so I posted about them on Wednesday! They were absolutely divine!!! There haven’t been many of them, but the few we have eaten have been so sweet and juicy and well worth…
Happy Monday (and Memorial Day), everyone! We spent a lot of time in the garden yesterday trying to get as much done as possible before the onslaught of summer really begins. While everything is planted out much sooner than it was last year at this time, I just can’t seem…
Happy Monday everyone! Well, I finally surrendered to the removal of all our over-wintered greens in an effort to (hopefully) fully thwart the leaf miners that refuse to give up their happy homes. I pulled what remained of the spinach and chard and left the only beet and kale plants…
Happy Monday everyone! Not a ton to report today in the way of actual harvests as we’re nearing the end of our greens and there’s a bit of a break between them and my spring plantings. I still haven’t mastered this whole succession planting schedule but there is a lot…
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…
Happy Monday everyone!!! We didn’t harvest a single thing all week until last night when I harvested some greens and carrots for lunch today (adding a couple boiled eggs makes an almost perfect salad)! I spent a lot of time last weekend cleaning, blanching and freezing all the greens we…
Happy Monday, everyone!!! Well, I think the warm weather just might be around for good. This weekend temperatures reached well into the upper 70s and it actually felt hot outside while I was working in the yard…Not the nice yummy spring warmth I’m used to, but an almost uncomfortable heat…