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 […]
Category Archives: Garden/Yard
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 […]
Three Sisters Begins
3 Sisters, a companion planting concept used by Native Americans for centuries, is a new concept to me and something I wanted to try. The oldest sister, corn, gets planted […]
Let the gardening games (finally) begin!
Weather people say it was the coldest, wettest spring in this area since the 1960’s. I just know it was bad for a gardener who wants to get started early, […]
The Great Bread Bowl Story
That is a picture of a bread bowl. The biggest bread bowl I’ve ever seen. Here’s the Great Bread Bowl story. My son and now daughter in law were married […]
The beginning of the garden
I had a guy till up a bigger area cos our garden is growing. It doesn’t have anywhere to go more than this, so we will make good use of […]
The life of our seeds….and us
Here’s quick post from my favorite soap box issue: the owning of seeds and the destruction of our freedom to have and grow our own seeds. Below is a link […]
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