Our rooster has finally found his Doodle Doo… The only catch is, he sings from inside the coop between 6:00 and 6:30 every single morning now. Yep, you read that right…he doesn’t leave the coop and stand in the brilliant sunshine to sing his song, he does it from the…
April 2012: June 2012: Whoa! 😉
Every morning when I wake up (whether it be by the alarm or by the suns gentle rise behind the Sangres), I make myself a cup of black tea with milk & honey and take a little walk through the garden. I check for growth and blossoms, I harvest, I…
I plant sweet corn not only because I adore the taste of it…but because I am also in love with the way the wind dances through its leaves, singing its beautiful songs of summer…
With our warm spring and zero late frosts, our fruit trees are doing wonderfully this year! Despite the cherry fiasco, we are anticipating a hefty harvest of apples, apricots and pears this summer and fall…well, as hefty as one might expect from a couple of young trees 😉 We noticed…
I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.~Phyllis Theroux Wishing you all a lovely weekend full of creation!
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…
This is the first year we’re attempting to grow cabbage. It all started out great and full of hope. Then, the cabbage worms struck. We started picking them off one by one…which was nearly impossible, but worked…mostly…though not before many, many holes were chewed. It seems that the worms are…