2022’s garden almost didn’t happen. We have been planning a trip to Europe since before the pandemic, but after our…
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Second picking of tomatoes
I’ve made my second picking of tomatoes of the year! It’s crazy to have tomatoes this early, but this is…
Roses and more
Can you smell that? It’s the lovely scent of my New Dawn Rose on the wonky trellis, now in full,…
First spring cleanup
I have not been motivated to do any spring cleaning up this year, and the weeds have taken advantage of…
Tomato Mystery
Where’s Scooby-doo? We’ve got a mystery….. My little tomato seedlings are growing out. They look so healthy! Today I noticed…
An Inauspicious Beginning
Well, it must be said: I’ve not had a great start to my planting this year. Here’s the bad news:…
One more cleanup
I think I’ve got one more cleanup to go until the garden is done. Today is very rainy but it…
Swiss chard — unlikely hero of the garden
It has a stupid-sounding name, but Swiss chard is definitely a garden champ! It would be hard to overstate how…
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…
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…