Yes, that is what is contained in our new raised beds in the backyard 🙂 It took two days of nearly back-breaking bed building and soil shuffling, but we are officially in business and I am now trying to figure out what all should go in those beds!!! We have…
Happy Monday, everyone! There seems to be lots happening in the yard suddenly! The peas are peeking, the rhubarb is huge (well, huge to me…it’s never gotten this big this fast before), the fruit trees have all blossomed out and are beginning to get some leaves, our raised beds/hoop houses…
Stay tuned…
Instead of simply throwing away (or recycling) our empty yogurt, cottage cheese or sour cream containers, we’ve been using them to up pot our seedlings while waiting for warmer weather 🙂 All you have to do is poke a couple of holes in the bottom of the container to allow…
Happy Friday, everyone! I hope the week has treated you well and the coming weekend is divine! Diving right in… Plant something: Believe it or not, I have not planted a single seed since last week. We hit a bit of a cold snap…rain, snow, grey grossness…for a few days and…
Well, we’ve made our first ever batch of beef jerky and it is delicious!!! We pulled a 2.24 pound beef round steak from the chest freezer and let it thaw out about half way before beginning to cut it into about 1/4 inch slices (partially frozen meat is much easier to…
If our fruit trees don’t suffer a hard freeze for the next month and a half, this just might be our first year of real fruit harvests (you know, real as in more than 8 or 10 apples)! Oh, my fingers are crossed and I am so hopeful, but with…
Happy Monday, everyone! Well, I haven’t closed the hoop houses all week, but from what I understand, the weather is supposed to turn today ad we just might get some snow. I’ll believe it when I see it, but I’m really not surprised. In some potentially exciting news, we just…