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Author: Jenny Smith
I'm Jenny Smith. I keep up with three cars, two kids, one husband, and I live on 300+ acres of rolling farmland in Northern Virginia where we look after an elderly relative. I like tomatoes, all things Star Trek, watercolor, and reading. I spend most days in the garden fighting deer and groundhogs as I pursue a graduate degree. I'm trying to be like Jesus -- emphasis on the trying.
August – September
Blogging about the garden has fallen by the wayside as tomato and bean production increased. Weeds and such went crazy…
A Bug’s Death
It is SO HOT. We are now at 28 consecutive days at over 90 degrees. This morning I went out…
Chugging along
There’s not a lot happening in the garden right now besides … disease. I’m getting squash and zucchini every day,…
Fourth of July Tomato!
It’s A Thing here in Virginia that those who can get a ripe tomato by the Fourth of July have…
Can you have too many tomato plants?
Really— can you? Nichole came through and gave me three beautiful Italian tomato plants yesterday, so I filled up the…
Back home
My daughter decided to move to Utah to be closer to school and to try and get her driver’s license…
Angry birds
I went out this morning to spray because I saw some bug damage yesterday during my daily walk-through of the…
First blossom! And the winner is…
I was surprised to see my first open blossom today on a tomato plant that I grew from seed! So…
Cucumbers planted!
Jared finally fixed the broken trellis, so I put in my little baby cucumber plants today. I had planted three…
Catchup day
Today is garden catchup day. It’s been too cold to work, so today we made up for it. We cut…
Tomato planting day!
It finally came! I’m like a kid waiting for Santa, except instead of being excited to play with toys, I’m…