• Grow - Harvest

    Harvest Monday

    Happy Labor Day everyone! This week brought us a bit of diversity in the form of the first winter squash!!!  I have been biting my nails in anticipation and just couldn’t take it any more!  There are still several ripening on their vines, but here’s the first peek!!! I also…

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    Harvest Monday

    Happy Monday everyone!!! This week was a jumble of harvesting and non-harvesting due to guests being in town and then a cold that caught me. Some highlights are: the first blue corn that was…er…not blue, lots of tomatoes, the very first lemon cucumber ever, lots of beans (these are all…

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    Garden Happiness(es)

    Sunflower & blue corn Winter squash, morning glories and a rouge sunflower Blue corn…so close to harvest ready! Lemon cucumbers!!! Jalapeno A single tomatillo flower What’s growing in your garden this week?

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    Harvest Monday

    Happy Monday everyone!!! The Yellow Taxis have continued to bless us with their presence in the garden…which I am grateful for since not many of our other varieties are near ready for harvest!  We’ve harvested about a pound a day of these babies! We also harvested our second (yes, their…

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    Garden Happiness(es)

    The beginnings of a jalapeno! This bed is 4 feet wide & the fence behind it is 6 feet tall.  This means, officially, that our tomatoes are out of control. Buddha hanging out with the blue corn . How can something so green bring one so much happiness??? Bush snap…

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    Garden Happiness(es)

    Massive, over-wintered spinach (in one of the now uncovered wagons) The massive spinach is now starting to go to seed…finally! Baby spinach in a pot on the front porch to replace the massive spinach once I pull it all out 🙂 Here we have lettuce and arugula which was planted…

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    Transplants

    Today was a fairly busy day, in a calm sort of way.  I woke up before anyone else (even the dogs stayed in bed when I got up!) and decided to have my tea in the front yard.  I thought I could just relax, enjoy the sun, the tea and…