The life of our seeds….and us
Here’s quick post from my favorite soap box issue: the owning of seeds and the destruction of our freedom to have and grow our own seeds. Below is a link […]
Tag Archives: growing food
Behold the Magic of the Earth
There’s a piece of cross stitch I did many years ago, and it hangs in my kitchen. I think of the magic of the earth often, but was especially reminded […]
Winter sowing vegetables
A good Facebook group I belong to introduced me to a process I’ve never heard of. Winter is boring for avid (read: addicted!) gardeners, cos we can’t plant anything or […]
Goodies from the end of the garden
Mmmm, stuff from the garden is always the best. I have a few jalapenos left, the regular green ones that have now turned red. Eliza’s purple ones are flowering and […]
Maybe I’m addicted to picking beans
OK, I could be addicted to picking beans, cos I just love picking them off the plants after having helped to teach the plants which way to climb and then […]
Thai purple yard long beans really are amazing
They grow like the seed company said they would, and produce a lot of beans. And we can’t eat flowers, but these pretty little orchid-like flowers just make you smile. […]
Hopi Lima beans
My Hopi orange Lima beans have been growing very well and they are terrific producers of flowers and beans, on good strong vines. The pods are smaller than the King […]
Dylan made pickles!
Eliza said Dylan wanted cucumbers cos he was going to make refrigerator pickles. Wait, you said what, he’s doing what? What? He wasn’t very interested in the garden all summer. […]
Our bean pergola
I wrote a post in the spring about two engineers building a trellis. https://sarasinart.net/2015/04/19/so-two-engineers-built-a-trellis/ It was unfair to this great structure to call it a trellis, cos a trellis is […]
More amazing stuff in the garden
There’s always fun and fascinating stuff going on in the garden. There’s been more of all that the last couple days. Above is a picture of one fascinating […]
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