Happy Monday everyone! I missed last weeks Harvest Monday because I was in Milwaukee visiting my very best friend in the world! We were watching Sandy hammer the east coast, eating good (comfort) food, painting and enjoying the wonder that 20+ years of friendship brings 🙂 But I digress…I must…
Happy Monday everyone! Well, things aren’t incredibly exciting here in the way of harvests now. We do, however, still have a few tomato vines that are holding onto some beautiful fruits (a Barnes Mountain Yellow, two Orange Flesh Purple Smudges and an Italian Heirloom), though they are ripening rather slowly…
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,…
Last summer, I was given a couple of packets of heirloom tomato seeds by a friend/co-worker. I couldn’t think of a better gift! One of those packets contained a few tiny Barnes Mountain Yellow Tomato seeds! I had never before heard of such a thing, was super excited to try…