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A Day In the Life
Some skeins drying in the breeze. This is my first yarn spun on a drop spindle. I’ve spent about a year and a half spinning this amount on the spindle. Not that I’ve spent a lot of time consistently...
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It’s Time For Dinner, what to do with the harvest
Time for dinner and I needed to thin the beets and carrots a little more. Those Nante carrots are big and fat,,wow. They grow fast. Red baron scallions, Detroit beets, green and purple green beans...
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Growing Grapes
My 3 year old grape plant. I pruned back to the 2 twigs in the spring like you’re suppose to do the second year. I just happen to be a slow starter. Here are few clusters burried under the leaves. I...
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Swiss Chard
This was my major swiss chard harvest. We had been eating it for a while. But I decided that the leaves were so large and the plants so voluminous that I better but some away for winter. I cut the...
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Peaches
My peach harvest this year. The birds discovered the peaches and since the trees are still smallish, we don’t have enough to share. So we picked them all and laid them out to finish ripening. I canned...
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Goodnight Garden
The temperature stayed in the 20s all day and it’s mid November anyway. I’ve been meaning to get those last carrots out of the ground. The stomach bug, the ripe tomatoes in the basement, the turkeys…...
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Mint
This year I cut off all the mint half way when it looked big and ready. Usually I just use a little here and there and don’t really harvest that much. But the mint did much better with a good hair...
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Tomatoes
I took these pictures about a third into my tomato processing. Which I have just now finished off. I only made sauces since my romas did not produce much and most of my tomatoes were very juicy. I...
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January
And with that comes the dream of another season. Some things I learned in 2012: 1. Sprout everything that is at all reasonable in the house before planting. 2. Don’t bother planting anything in the...
View ArticleRecognizing the signs of soil defiency in plants…Garden Notes
Soil deficiencies are observed in plants in the following ways: Nitrogen Deficiency–generally produces in plants slender fibrous stems, and foliage and stems that fade to yellow in color. Phosphorus...
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