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 […]
Tag Archives: gardening
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?
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 […]
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 […]
I grow green beans in the strangest places
And not always on purpose! Last year a green bean seed somehow got among my tomato plants. It gave me as many beans as if it had been growing […]
Pick it, clean it, eat it, love it!
I’ve been eating onions right along for a couple weeks, and also spinach, but it’s almost summer and now the temp agrees. The spinach leaves have been getting thinner […]
It was a nice rain………
Plants are smiling!
Not much goes in the land fill from here
My neighbor asked if I wanted the potato peels from a big family dinner, for my compost pile…….well yes, I do! And I told her my next summer’s garden would […]
Making do……have we forgotten how? And does it matter?
I grew up with parents who had lived thru the Great Depression and an awful war. I heard stories from them and my grandmother about austerity, rationing of things during […]
Retiring……time to smell the roses
I’m going to retire at the end of the year. It’s a time of reflection, and asking of questions. What will I miss? What will I do? Who will I […]
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