A Girl in the Garden
(365 Day 117 Photo) Okay that’s that. I posted a 365. Now, the rest of these images are from my first guest photographer. How convenient that she lives right here…
Weird Potatoes
Just an update on my Potato Tire Experiment: I let the potatoes tops in the first tire grow to about 8 inches, then added a tire and more dirt. My…
With Silver Bells
How does it grow? Beats me. (365 Day 103 Photo) So far, I have underwatered (that was two seasons ago and this year some of those seeds are finally sprouting-…
The Mary-budde that Shuts with the Light
She “goes to bed wi’ th’ sun, And with him rises weeping.’ – Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale It does seem to be craning to look at the sun for guidance…
Insert Cliche About Grapevines Here
This is the budding of my grapevine. (The one I’ve kept languishing in a tiny pot from Lowes for 3 years before finally planting it last summer.) It means I’d…
Garden View
I didn’t grow up on a farm where seasons and the moon determined your lifestyle. I spent the eighties in a little suburb where seasons were either new episodes of…
Truck Tires and Tubers
I’d pretty much given up on growing potatoes this year since we didn’t have a new garden plot for the mounds. Then I happened upon a solution that, though old…
When Kids Like Broccoli on the Table
They never complain about having broccoli when it bolts and the florets become… florets! They look kind of neat in a big vase in the center of the table.
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Seed Savers Anonymous
I harvested seeds heads a few months ago, put them in paper bags, and carefully avoided them and the mania I knew would ensue if I got started separating them,…
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Canned Good
(365 day 45 photo) Pulled out my contraption today to try a ttv photo for 365. Only catch is that I have to be in it. That’s not easy when…