Hello Woolly.

I found a friend when clearing the (out of control) herb garden.  Woolly stayed to play, and if the folklore holds true, we are in for a mild winter .  I always look forward to finding the first Woolly of the year and never fail to take my yearly first Woolly Bear caterpillar picture.  They [...]

The Marvel In My Garden

In early summer of this year I planted my little herb seedlings.  And they grew.  And they grew.  Then one day I went out saw something, something quite small, but quite large at the same time, moving along my dill.  A pest!  In the garden.  So I plucked the pudgy little caterpillars from the dill [...]

Home. Away

Thanks for all your lovely comments about my last post.  The worst part of my status with my ex-husband is being uneasy posting anything or letting anyone know that we are going to be out of town and our house is going to be empty.  Yes, I know, unfortunate, moving on.  The girls and I [...]

Harvesting Small Scale

I have to say things went well considering this was my first veggie patch in nine years and first in this home.  The massive amounts of rain didn’t help and it still continues to fall, day after day after day. We are down to just the beans and the peppers.  My real joy was getting [...]

Cycles

The tomatoes are blighted.  The beetles have about destroyed the zucchini (okay, so maybe I’m not mourning that one).  And it appears something (deer?) has eaten the tops of about half of the bean blossoms.  The peppers are proliferating and the carrots are still being dug a few at a time for the rabbit.  And [...]

dusk.

we waited and waited…
and then the lightning bugs, fireflies…whatever name you choose, were blinking on…off…on…off and the girls rushed first to one spot, stood stock still, then dashed off in another direction to catch one.
i caught one on my finger on the way back to fill the watering can, and it rode contentedly, perched on [...]

Beans

A handful for my dinner…only enough for one, but still more coming…

Thoughts From The Herb Patch

We just started receiving the fruits of our planting. One zucchini, two yellow squash, and two green peppers.  The zucchini was stuffed with a spinach, mushroom, couscous, parmesan mix, the squash were breaded and fried and the peppers are going into our spaghetti pie tonight.
I am  supposedly now, cooking dinner, the girls remain outside on [...]

How Does Your Garden Grow?

This is the first garden I have ever planted since Ems was born eight years ago.  It is divided into two gardens a veggie patch and an herb bed.  Tonight I walked out and took a look to make sure harvesting the first pepper and zucchini could wait until we returned from our trip this [...]

Coming Along Nicely

The projects around here seem to be coming along nicely, minus the sewing, I just cannot get back into the groove right now with it, not for lack of interest, mind you.  It also doesn’t help that the sewing table, aka, dining room table, is completely taken over with the seedlings.  That and the (re)organization [...]