Two little trees, doing well!
Last fall I wrote about having had to cut down a beautiful silver maple tree, and how shoots had developed from the trunk, and how I wondered whether they […]
Tag Archives: garden
Onion sets……let the gardening begin!
Serious thoughts of gardening begin when the hardware store downtown gets their onion sets. These little dandies planted and left in the ground about 6 weeks give you the […]
Almost 4 years……….
2/11 will be 4 years that this old opinionated hippie chick has been rambling along, and more to come. Thanks to so many dedicated readers who follow along, comment and […]
OK, 65
OK, so today I’m 65. Pretty much just another day with a big number attached, lol. I’m now officially a senior citizen tho. In the spring I’ll go to our […]
A few Roma tomatoes, lol
About 1/3 of my crop of Roma plum tomatoes. I planted two plants. I’ll give some away tomorrow, cook with some in the next few days, and dehydrate a […]
Baby rabbits….not for stew!
They are brave enough to let you get within about 5′ when they’re this little. Baby rabbit mortality rate is high; diseases, abandonment, people, lawn mowers, hawks, cars, cats; many […]
Spring, my first sign……….
My first sign of spring is always a patch of tiny crocus out behind the house. These are the smallest ones I’ve ever seen, and always the first thing up […]
Collard Greens
These 64 years I have never eaten collard greens. For some reason I thought there was something not tasty about them, or tough, or whatever stories I had heard, that turned out […]
Why not plant potatoes?
So I like to do a little gardening. Not a lot, I’m getting older, just enough to have some fun. Always tomatoes, which I don’t like raw, but like them […]
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