I love nature’s miracles
It’s not hard to grow green beans. Unless you grow them in yucca plants. I posted an earlier blog about having apparently dropped a green bean seed down […]
Category Archives: Nature
All chipmunks here are named Cecil
They make a squeaky noise that sounds like CecilCecilCecil, so they have always been named Cecil around here. One has one of his tunnels 5′ off my back porch […]
King of the Garden
My last few cabbages are small, but that’s ok. Lima beans are just now really coming on. I love my heirloom seeds. The cabbages are the sweetest I’ve ever […]
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 […]
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 […]
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