• Grow,  Harvest

    Garden Happiness(es)

    The sweet corn in the back yard seems to be confused…it’s not even 3 feet tall, but it’s starting to try to produce corn…weird! The German Butterball Potatoes  are getting ready to flower! The Butternut Squash is getting some color texture! Bush Beans, Pole Beans and Snap Peas Mystery tomatoes coming along.  I transplanted this guy and forgot to write…

  • Grow,  Harvest

    Garden Happiness(es)

    The first pie pumpkin The first (ever) acorn squash I love the texture in this bed…Sunflowers, tomatoes and acorn squash Ashes made her way outside, Bo was not happy about it… Baby tomatoes…not suffering from butt rot The first lemon cucumber…the previous few mysteriously disappeared… The first bush snap pea The first rain water harvest!!! Silly puppies AKA Mika &…

  • Grow

    Garden Happiness(es)

    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 front yard Mint and a transplanted tomato…couldn’t tell you what…

  • Uncategorized

    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 in the bed right outside the front door.  The lettuce…

  • Prepare

    On Preparation

    Let me start off by saying that I have Spring Fever in the worst kind of way.  For real.  All I want to do is play in the yard/garden, hang out with the chickens and plan, plan, plan how my garden will grow.  Instead, I have to work.  Stinkin’ responsibilities.  Oh well.  When I come home from work, I am…