Stay home…and garden, OK!
If this had to happen, I’m so glad it happened in the spring. There’s beautiful new life all around us here, and garden and yard work to do on […]
Tag Archives: growing food
Simple pleasures for a gardener
Wow, this is my 500th post! One simple pleasure: running your fingers thru a container of dried beans from the garden. And shelling them first, too! Missing a couple cucumbers […]
A good taste of summer, in the winter!
I don’t often post recipes here, cos I don’t think I make many things that are so unusual. But several people I know have asked me how to make freezer […]
Rambling along in the garden on a wonderful day
Any day you can eat veggies from your garden is a good day. My garden is small, but plants love it here, so they usually get big and produce well. […]
Let the bounty of the earth begin in the garden
Tomato row is already looking good, with one of them already taller than me. The metal trellises and bamboo poles connecting them provide a strong structure for plants that normally […]
The most wonderful time of the year
There’s a Christmas song that says that time is the most wonderful time of the year. I disagree, and think this is the most wonderful time of the year. Everything […]
Rambling along in the spring
Just rambling about spring, and whatever. The happy little tree bloomed, and it was beautiful! Albert, guardian of the garden, enjoyed it too. https://sarasinart.net/2019/04/11/spring-things-and-other-good-stuff/ It was so interesting that after […]
This squash!
It’s just fun, growing this squash. There are 9 big ones forming as they should. There are some other little buds which probably won’t have time to develop into mature […]
Gardening always has challenges
There are sometimes new challenges come along, like groundhogs last year. And old challenges like blight on tomatoes and powdery mildew on squash. I had both of them bad this […]
Summer rolls along………
We had a cool, wet spring, and things in the garden didn’t take off like they do a lot of years, but everything survived. Now they’re catching up. Then we […]
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