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…
I’ve read that planting sunflowers and cucumbers together can sweeten the flavor of the cukes while providing them a natural trellis to climb. While I’ve never seen it done, I’ve decided to try it in the garden this year and am hopeful for gorgeous sunflowers and delicious cukes! Have you…
Happy Monday everyone! Tool Lady taming the jungle. I escaped Homework Land just long enough to snap a couple of pictures 🙂 How do you know that your wife loves you? When she chooses to spend the majority of her Saturday cleaning up the garden and bringing in what’s left to…
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…
Happy Monday, everyone! I promise we harvested more than a couple of peppers, a melon and a few tomatoes! Happy Hot Peppers Our 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, Roma Unfortunately,…
Happy Monday everyone! According to the Farmer’s Almanac, we are in for a cold, wet winter! I’ll take the snow, but am hopeful the cold part is a normal cold and not a frigid one! We are planning two hoop houses in the backyard this year in which to over winter…
Happy Monday everyone! The past week has brought us all kinds of weather…clear and cold, cloudy and rainy, clear and warm…short sleeve days followed by two layers of long sleeves and then short sleeves again. Welcome to fall in Santa Fe! The garden and chickens don’t like it very much,…
…When your daughter eats it like an apple 😉