How to spend a hot summer day
She knows to stay downstairs, cos the upstairs is much warmer in a long skinny house that has the long side facing east. We have a heat advisory today, […]
Tag Archives: gardening
Chili today
Pick tomatoes and a jalapeno from the garden, soak some kidney beans from last year, chop up some other things and after while I’ll have a little pot of chili!
Some pleasures of summer………
A ride in a horse drawn wagon at a nice summer festival. The fresh smell of laundry dried on the line. Upsetting the little Jenny wren cos I’m […]
The blessings of the earth in our garden
We’ve been eating cucumbers, and we all like them here and have agreed that none from any store will ever taste this good. A couple things that Eliza got […]
Oh Christmas tree, oh………no, wait
It’s not Christmas in July, it’s cucumbers gone crazy; a cucumber tree! I had to rig up a bamboo tee pee to help hold up a tomato cage full […]
Some things work just like they’re supposed to!
Japanese beetles are a garden pest that can wreak havoc on several things: roses, and, as I discovered 2 years ago, green bean leaves. Then last year I discovered […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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