Can you smell that? It’s the lovely scent of my New Dawn Rose on the wonky trellis, now in full,…
Author: Jenny Smith
I'm Jenny Smith. I blog about life on the 300+ acres of rolling farmland in Northern Virginia where I live. I like tomatoes, all things Star Trek, watercolor, and reading. I spend most days in the garden fighting deer and groundhogs while trying to find my life's meaning. I'm trying to be like Jesus -- emphasis on the trying.
Beautiful peas
It is chilly here on our sunny hill this morning, but there isn’t any rain in the forecast, so I…
This is not extra…
Putting fairy lights on your cattle panel bean trellis is not extra. At all.
How not to build a cucumber trellis
This, right here, is why you don’t allow an electrical and computer engineer to build your prototype cucumber trellis unsupervised:…
Tomato Planting Day
We are back home from our last minute vacation to Orlando celebrating Sydney’s completion of three semesters of college and…
Think better
If you said riots would happen no matter how yesterday’s verdict went, please take a minute today to think about…
Tomato Flowers
Happy news!!! The tomatoes I grew from seed have started to grow their first little tiny flower trusses! look how…
First spring cleanup
I have not been motivated to do any spring cleaning up this year, and the weeds have taken advantage of…
Asparagus on parade
Well, it’s that time of year again: the time when I wonder why I never considered that one day we…
So, brother, you noticed there weren’t many women speaking at Conference. Here’s what you can do…
This is the main part of my response to a post in a private Facebook group, which after a post…
Deck Garden Refresh
My tomato growing buddy, Del, has a deck garden where he usually grows a ton of tomatoes, but tragically, last…
Companion Planting: Leeks and Asparagus
I’m not the first person to observe that companion planting myths exist, but this is the first time I’ve made…