The garden is benefiting from lots of rain
It rained an enormous amount over the last several weeks and things are benefiting from it. I discovered 2 nice sized cucumbers when I was just out poking around, thinking […]
Category Archives: Nature
Drying lovage
I wrote a blog a while ago about the herb called lovage. https://sarasinart.net/2013/04/25/lovage/ It’s such an interesting plant, and one that many people don’t know about at all. The celery […]
Drying sage
Sage adds a wonderful flavor to sausage, potatoes and a few other things. I grow a couple plants and take leaves fresh to add to things during the summer. The […]
The garden race
The race to be the tallest is on in the garden. Kentucky Wonder green beans were the first thing to reach the top of the trellis structure. https://sarasinart.net/2015/04/19/so-two-engineers-built-a-trellis/ They […]
Gathering veggies before a big storm
There’s only a few good things ready to harvest from the garden right now. I was just out picking some Swiss chard, and earlier Eliza picked two nice zucchinis. […]
Let the journey begin
It’s a longs ways to UP when you’re a seedling. But we’re King of the Garden Lima beans and we have a long ways up to go, so here we […]
Our garden needs road signs
Most people think of a garden and what they see in their mind is a big, well organized square of nice neat rows. Not here, not our garden. Oh […]
Garden progress, things growing well!
My future daughter in law Eliza is my co-gardener and she likes purple things, lots of purple things. Like the purple tomatoes pictured above, which I started from seeds […]
Perspective and spring day musings………..
Looking down thru our little farm from the perspective of this beautiful pot of annuals is such a good view. Things are growing well and soon tomatoes will be up […]
A morning walkabout in the garden
Tomatoes are all looking good now after being transplanted from the seeds I started in the kitchen. I had doubts about two of them right after they were transplanted but […]
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