Yesterday we got the outdoor shower at the garden house working and I’m really happy about it. Hot water for the shower and the garden kitchen sink too! It has taken what seems like forever but we’re slowly inching our way towards being a wwoof host. So much fun! If you don’t know what wwoof [. . .]
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sunny days
When did this little maple tree get all it’s leaves?!! There’s so much happening in the garden these days that I don’t notice it all when it’s happening. A couple days ago, I walked by this spot and was struck by how lovely this potted tree looked in the dappled light against the cob wall, [. . .]
plants for sale!!
I really have been very patient about the weather…hardly complaining at all but today I’ve lost my resolve to not complain about the weather anymore. After a torrential downpour all night long, a foggy mist that looks more like end-of-October (or even January) has lasted all day long. I don’t really mind the rain right [. . .]
appreciating lettuce
It’s time to clean up the hoophouse beds for this summer’s tomato crop and because I didn’t grow any winter/early spring greens in the hoophouse this year, I ignored the beds (too busy with pea shoot and sunflower shoot greens production in the glass greenhouse)…..’til now. Sadly, the hoophouse beds have been growing weeds. And [. . .]
broccoli romanesco
Oh my. Did I ever get sick last week. A bad flu was going around and sounds like lots of folks I know had it too. Spring Equinox is not a good time for me to be knocked out in bed……just when my annual garden panic sets in and it once again becomes painfully obvious [. . .]
daffodils and owls
Beautiful late afternoon light, the beginnings of a gorgeous sunset cast a lovely glow on the mini daffodils today before dinner…. This really does feel like spring…..and while weeding in the garden this afternoon, the owls were a hootin’ and a hollerin’ in the surrounding forest…a sure sign of spring! Sounds like owl mating season [. . .]