This is me, in all my gardening glory (hmmm…) holding up the biggest turnip-gone-to-seed-space-hog ever! Never did I think that one turnip would get so incredibly big! Well, not the actual turnip, but all the foliage that went along with it! Of all the seeds we’re attempting to save this…
Last weekend we strung some rope from our two raised beds at the end of our porch up through the slats in our portal (about 10-12 feet high) in an effort to give our Trail of Tears Beans something to hold on to. I am really happy with the way…
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…
After much procrastination, we have finally purchased all of the necessary items and tools to install drip irrigation in our front and back yards. We purchased everything yesterday morning and Tool Lady spent most of the day running it through all the beds in the front yard while I pulled…
About a week ago I was pulling off a few stalks of store bought celery when I remembered a friend of mine saying that she had cut her celery off its base and plopped that base back into a bowl of water. Shortly thereafter, she said it was growing new…
Last night, while checking on Broody’s food and water, we found this… Yep, that’s an actual egg! And guess what? She wasn’t laying on it!!! She was walking around, eating, drinking and being calm! Amazing! Do you see the egg at the bottom of the photo?And Broody at the top,…
A little over a month ago, we purchased a couple of hops plants from our friends at Spotty Dog Farm. They did well under the grow lights until the weather warmed a bit, but when it came time to plant them out, the biggest one got completely fried and died…
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…