Happy Monday everyone! Well, the past week has been full of tomatoes! 18 to be exact! 17 of those were Yellow Taxis and 1 was a Cherokee Purple…an itty bitty Cherokee Purple. While it was quite a pain to carry all those tomato starts in and out of the house…
Happy Monday everyone! Something very exciting happened this week! We harvested our first three tomatoes!!! Yep, you read that right…two Yellow Taxi Tomatoes and one cherry tomato! Oh man! I guess that starting those seeds under the grow lights in February really paid off 🙂 We also harvested our first…
Happy Monday everyone! I couldn’t wait to announce our very first strawberries as they were harvested last week so I posted about them on Wednesday! They were absolutely divine!!! There haven’t been many of them, but the few we have eaten have been so sweet and juicy and well worth…
Yesterday morning I got out and played in the garden for a bit. I’ve been wanting to plant some fava beans (broad beans) and some snap peas but keep getting distracted by work and school and wind and the bees and…well…a million other things. Of course, the yard is a…
This nasturtium is to be expected at this time of year… …but this little rose is quite a nice surprise! The fall snap peas look happy and healthy…just waiting for blossoms Kale and beets in the raised beds A little bit of lettuce 🙂 The tips of what’s left of…
A cold front is moving through and our temps are about 20 degrees below where they’ve been for what feels like forever. It’s raining lightly right now and I’m happily drinking a cup of hot tea in the middle of the afternoon. Tomorrow is the unofficial last day of summer,…
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…