The robins seem to have gone……..
I haven’t seen any robins for maybe a week. The last time I did see some it was 4 sort of together in the back yard, and I assumed […]
Category Archives: Garden/Yard
Beans are good food
I like beans of different types cos they’re versatile to cook with in different ways, good protein and also tasty. They’re also pretty easy to grow. And I like […]
Local seed library shut down
I’m quoting the Carlisle Sentinel newspaper here: an article about a local seed library being shut down. Seed libraries are cropping up all over the country, in an effort to […]
Romanesco broccoli ooops
Research, research, I didn’t do enough of it. Turns out this broccoli is a cool weather plant and these small heads are the plant going to bolt. I’ve collected […]
A good morning harvest
Hmm, tomorrow I’ll make tomato sauce to freeze for winter recipes, and make some cole slaw too. How does your garden grow?
Ahh glorious beans
Limas above. Limas and green beans below, learning to go “over” instead of “up” , crawling on a wire between two 9′ trellises. Jack in the Beanstalk is a […]
Romanesco broccoli
I had never heard of it. The organic, heirloom seed company I buy my seeds from sent me the seeds in the spring, free for ordering other seeds. I […]
Black eyed peas
They’re not like other beans at all. They get bigger before they start to flower, and once the flowers are done and the bean pods come on, they take longer […]
A nice cabbage
If you’ve never grown cabbage and only ever bought it from the store, you automatically think of cabbage as being a thing maybe 6″ across. It’s hard to believe […]
Remember that trellis I named Encouragement?
It’s 9′ tall. Calling it Encouragement worked, and so did good non-GMO seeds, and lots of water and good aged horse manure as fertilizer. (Also continuously getting rid of as […]
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