I know you've all been wondering how my garden is doing--especially since I've not posted any pictures of it so far. The very first tomato of the season! A ready-to-eat salad Soon to be producing way more zucchini than we can eat. Marionberries My new favorite color/type of marigold--the strawberry blonde Looking at all of…
It's that time of year again! The days are getting longer. Everything is blooming. Pollen is coating the cars. And the blackberry vines are growing like mad. I spent all day working in the garden this past Sunday. After my fall in February that injured my back, I am in quite a bit of pain…
It's been a rough winter over here. Not weather-wise, but mood- and circumstance-wise. Every now and then there are things that bring me hope and help me keep going. This picture is one of them. This is a shoot on an orchid that I adopted. It was lonely and very sad looking at the store.…
We have quite the extensive garden here on the farm. In addition to space for the vegetables, we have a large strawberry patch, a large blueberry patch, and so many fruit trees. It's wonderful. But this time of year it's a lot of work. The soil needs to be prepped for planting. Seeds are germinated…
Being the end of summer and beginning of fall, the blackberries are ripe and we decided that we were going to pick some this year. So my husband and I got to work. I geared up with my boots and jeans and long-sleeved shirt. My husband had the clippers for those vines that just won't…