Melissa | November 29, 2011
Who knew?
In case you are not at all familiar with loofas, they look like tubes of shredded wheat and are often sold as bath sponges right next to the nylon poofy things.
Pretty much everyone we told this year that we were growing loofas, said, “Mmm…and I always thought they came from the sea.” I guess [...]
Melissa | October 8, 2011
Recipes for carrots welcome
Oh, and we also pulled the bushel gourds, a lost potato and some onions today.
Melissa | September 18, 2011
This represents about half of our potato crop this year.
Pretty pathetic when you considered we planted 20 spuds.
Melissa | August 31, 2011
We started last weekend heading out to go camping. Our house was in the path of Irene but our camping plans were far enough west that we thought we’d be safe.
We spent time with Boo Boo,
raced pedal carts,
and worked on our mini-golf stroke.
Saturday afternoon the forecast changed so we decided to weather the storm at [...]
Melissa | August 14, 2011
Some folks plan their garden around what they actually eat. Some grow what is easy. Some grow what everyone else does. We do a little of those things but mostly we just pick up a seed catalogue in late winter and start picking things that look fun and different.
While this salsa may [...]
Melissa | July 5, 2011
So we planted baby onions last fall. The didn’t do much in our hard clay and in the cold weather. We just left them and were a little surprised this spring to see that they survived the winter. Since we re-designed the garden this year into raised beds, we moved them in hopes that the [...]
Melissa | June 30, 2011
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Melissa | May 29, 2011
We have harvested over 300 strawberries in under a week. Feel free to share your favorite strawberry recipes!
Cherry trees, coffee, three-in-one citrus tree, and chives.
Grapes galore!
This year’s tomato “cages.”
Cucumbers.
Snow Peas. Lovin’ the nylon netting this year.
Melissa | May 25, 2011
We saw a post like this one at the beginning of the spring and loved it! We’re always trying to use our vertical space more efficiently.
We had initially thought we would do towers but then decided a long, narrow wall would take less time to build while still accomplishing its our original purpose…more potatoes in [...]
