With summer well on its way, the days have been long and hot and smokey. I finally got up on the roof yesterday to hook up our swamp cooler and decided to bring my camera with me to get a birds eye view of our yard. Now, here’s a little…
Whelp…after all the excitement and promise of cherries last week, it looks like I was worried about the wrong pest. This is what has happened over the past few days… Do you see the two almost ripe cherries?Now, do you see the devoured cherry above them? Yep…all our beautiful, ripe…
First off, these are not our strawberries. While we are patiently waiting for our first strawberry harvest, we couldn’t resist picking up a few from the store. This is, however, our rhubarb! Yay! Our first real rhubarb harvest! A whole 12 ounces…3 1/2cups worth…the perfect amount to add a few…
Happy Monday (and Memorial Day), everyone! We spent a lot of time in the garden yesterday trying to get as much done as possible before the onslaught of summer really begins. While everything is planted out much sooner than it was last year at this time, I just can’t seem…
Ugh…Broody is back in solitary confinement. This time, though, we put her in the outdoor chick brooder instead of the little one in the garage since she beat herself up last time. Why is she in there again? Well, because she is officially on the cull list 🙁 We tried…
Well, we finally broke down and purchased ourselves a little lemon tree! We’ve been talking about it for a while and have debated the pros and cons and have decided to go ahead and jump on it. It’s really little right now…more of a bush than a tree…but it has…
Oh man…I’m counting down the days until these beauties will be ready! Our little strawberry patch is so happy this year…I’m hoping for a great harvest 🙂 What’s your favorite thing to make with fresh strawberries?
The good news is, we have cherries that are ripening up! The bad news is, we have a million aphids on our cherry tree! The good news is, we also have some Ladybugs on our cherry tree! Let’s hope they’re hungrier and faster than the aphids…