It finally came! I’m like a kid waiting for Santa, except instead of being excited to play with toys, I’m…
Tag: peas
Bear Claw blooms
The tomato plants I ordered from Laurel’s Heirloom Plants in California came in on Saturday! She had them packaged really…
Starting the straw bales
Well, it’s a week later than planned thanks to Sydney’s Zoom birthday and Caleb’s Zoom wedding, but today I started…
Social Distancing
I’m trying to pretend that I’m not fReaKinG out about coronavirus, so today I put in some peas. I let…
The garden is still producing
I went out to the garden today and picked another 15 or so tomatoes. None is much larger than a…
The new fence
Today the farm entered the 21st century. We had the front fence, which has been made of wood for as…
Cursed deer
It’s a class 2 misdemeanor to kill a deer that is eating your garden here in Virginia without getting a…
Mite-y Rose
I was in the garden yesterday with a friend and got inspired (read: shamed into) to doing some deadheading today…
Del’s Tomatoes
I put in the tomatoes from my friend, Del, this morning. I ran out of potting soil and had to…
O Hail No
Just when you think everything is going great…. Saturday about 8pm we had a terrible storm kick up. It put…
Roses in full bloom!
The roses are some kind of gorgeous this week! I got back from a short road trip with my friend,…
Irises, Roses, and Azaleas — Oh My!
I was away for a week, and when I got home the garden was full of blossoms (and weeds —…