Happy Monday everyone! This week brought a mixture of harvests, including the first jalapeno and the first Happy Hot Peppers! Dave, I’m hoping you might have some insight/shared curiosity about why ours went straight from green to red instead of the pretty orange you’ve gotten in the past. Very interesting…I guess we’ll…
Last fall, before everything died back, we trimmed some mint and put it in some water until it rooted. Once rooted, it was put in a pot under the new grow lights. Now that spring is upon us, I’ve been thinking about where to plant that mint when it’s time…
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…
The first cosmo! “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up! So…I guess I’ll just hang out down here with the squash…” Bush beans Broccoli! The bush beans are out of control! The butternut squash is getting huge and starting to change colors! More sunflowers! These guys are about 10 feet…
Happy Monday everyone!!! We’re starting to see a little more color in our harvests, though not as much as I’d like! Turns out that one of the mystery tomatoes that was transplanted and not labelled is another Yellow Taxi!!! Ah well! A tomato is a tomato and I am grateful…
This weeks harvest is both exciting (the first Roma tomato) and redundant (tomatoes galore). We’ve continued to enjoy an abundance of Yellow Taxis, a few cherry toms here and there, several Romas, a sprig of mint (as a gift for Brother & Brother’s girlfriend Eliza) and a very few snap…
Happy Monday everyone!!! This weeks harvest was very exciting because it was another first for us! We harvested all our onions!!! We also had our first harvest of our second round of spinach! While a few of the plants have gone to seed already, most of them are quite happy…
Hilled up potatoes! A corner of our back yard Fantastic sunset shot from the back yard Chickens like beets 🙂 The Butternut Squash is starting to run! Snap Peas and beans starting the long climb! Beans make for a pretty cover crop Spinach (second planting) under a tree in the…