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 a little while ago that our apples were looking a…
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The Flowering Carrot
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!
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Harvest Monday
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 for a couple of weeks in April and May, getting…
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Cabbage Destruction
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 gone now, but in their place are these itty bitty…
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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 year from over-wintered veggies (turnips, beets, carrots, kale and radishes),…
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Bean TeePee – Supersized
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 it looks now and can’t wait for the beans to…
