This was an exciting week! We harvested our first, second, third, fourth and fifth tomatoes! That’s right, a total of 5 tomatoes in one week! Looks like all the patience has paid off and I couldn’t be happier! These are Yellow Taxi Tomatoes and are super yummy. The skins…
If you were to be a fly on the wall in my home in the early hours of any given weekend morning, you would probably find my kitchen table looking something like this… That is because I love, love, love to plan. I have lists and diagrams and ideas and…
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…
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…
This weeks Harvest Monday, hosted by Daphne consists of lots of green (yes, again…I’m practicing my patience this spring). Spinach = 1 lb 14 oz Kale = 1 lb 13 oz Snap Peas = 1 oz The snap peas are the most exciting news of the week because I just love them…
This spring our garden has provided an over abundance of spinach and kale. This, added to all the greens we have been getting weekly from our CSA, has forced me to figure out how to preserve some of these wonderful items instead of letting them go wilty and therefore, to…
Here’s what’s happening in the garden this week! It’s been so incredibly dry (and cold up until a couple of days ago) that I’m still waiting on the sweet corn, squash, zucchini and peanuts to peek (along with a few other veggies), but all these other happenings make me very…