October collards are the best
By October it has cooled off some and the plants are making smaller leaves, but they’re sweeter and more tender. Since I’ve been pulling leaves from the bottom of the […]
Tag Archives: nature
Bays Mountain Park and Planetarium
While I was visiting in Tennessee, we went to an amazing place high up in the mountains at Kingsport. Bays Mountain Park and Planetarium is an adventure where you could […]
Fall creeps in………
It will soon come to the time when we can’t enjoy the fresh smell of laundry on the line. It hasn’t rained here much at all lately and the brown […]
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 […]
Rabbit’s nest
Walking around in my side yard, I found a rabbit’s nest. The mother rabbit will use a depression in the soil, or dig a little hole. Then she covers it […]
King of the Garden Lima beans are now getting serious
My King of the Garden Lima beans are later than other people’s’ Limas, and were last year. I don’t know why that is, but now they have decided to get […]
MaChatte says this is not good…………
There is only one reason to ever have to get into the cat carrier, and that’s to go to the vet. She got woken up from a perfectly good nap […]
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 […]
Sarasin's thoughts....... 