I’ve been a bad girl and have failed to keep you up-dated on the progress of our ‘Farm’. Almost everything planted has done amazingly well, especially the weeds, and we have started harvesting crops already. We had a good start with the zuchini, and got a bunch of them all at once, but one plant […]
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Things are coming along nicely out at ‘The Farm’. We got our plants in and our seeds planted just after Memorial Day, and spent the next several evenings making sure everything was well watered to ensure a good start. Before planting the beans, we constructed tee-pees of bamboo poles and twine for them to grow on, and […]
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Finally! After a long, long, long winter, and a cold and wet early spring, it seems that finally we are in for some nicer weather. The trees are finally leafing out, and flowers are blooming.New life has begun right under the front porch roof- a pair of Robins has started a family on top of […]
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So far this winter I have amassed a huge collection of seed and plant catalogues. I love to page through them, looking at all the gorgeous photos, reading the descriptions and trying to decide if this plant or that plant would be a better fit in my dream garden (I call it my dream garden […]
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The cold brisk days of winter are settling in now and I have a chance to reflect on the past growing season. Currently, I don’t have as much gardening space as I’d like but I did make good use of it this past season growing tomatoes, herbs, and scarlet runner beans (really tasty if picked […]
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