You can learn so much working in the garden
I have a fenced in area that’s sort of rabbit proof. Other years I used to cover it with cardboard in the fall to keep all sort of extraneous weeds […]
Category Archives: Cooking/Food
Spring is springing
We had a warm spell in February, then back to normal Pa temps. Now it looks like spring is really coming. Chives are up, and parsley. Some others herbs that […]
Working in the garden….in February.
For anybody who says climate change doesn’t exist, or, worse yet, that it doesn’t matter, you should have seen me the last 2 days working in the garden, at 65 […]
Winter has its blessings too
The earth is brown and gray now. And if you’re a regular reader, you know I don’t like winter, cos it’s cold and dark and long, and I can’t grow garden! […]
The last of the Limas
Oh the last of the garden is always sad, but the time has come for the good earth in Pennsylvania to take a rest. Today I took the tomato plants […]
It all started with blue corn
Blue Hopi corn, to be exact. The seeds were given to me last year by a dear lady who has since passed away. Her family had been growing this corn […]
The good earth provides
Let the harvests continue! I love to see beans curing in a jar on the window sash. Those are the first black turtle beans, and later there will be some […]
Things are growing on around here!
I went to the greenhouse early in the season to buy herbs. I saw 4 “cute little spaghetti squash” plants, and decided to bring them home too. I would plant […]
Garden going wild!
The garden is doing amazing stuff. I had posted before that I had a garden mystery: squash coming up where my cucumbers (only!) were supposed to be, squash that I […]
Gardening adventures
Or maybe I should just call them gardening misadventures. I planted two kinds of cucumber seeds under a big bamboo teepee: some straight 8’s and some pickling cukes. I planted […]
