Okay, I admit I copied these from my wife’s blog- I am that lazy. Here they are:
View from the back of the garden toward the house.
From the alley. The tree is our cherry tree.
And the chickens!
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Before the several inches of snow that fell just last week, I turned over a few plots and covered them in plastic. Peas are in. Lettuces, spinach, chard, kale and a couple other cold weather crops will be in this week. My tomatoes, eggplant and peppers are doing great in the basement and will be [...] As my wife and I plan this season’s garden, we each have different tasks and dreams. My wife primarily thinks of harvest: What do we want from the garden? How much from the garden? I think in terms of gettin’er done: Where do I plant? When do I plant? How can I use my space [...]
Here are some random things going on in my life and/or in my head: Just wanted to share this with you. Everything we are and have has been given to us by God- our life, time, possessions, relationships… everything. God gives us these things as gift and task. In this post, I will speak of these things briefly as task, but on Friday I will post on these things as gift. Since we are in the [...] One of the great things about summer is eating your work. One of our favorite dishes in the summer is ratatouille served on a mound of polenta! We grow the egg plant, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers and most of the herbs. This past summer, we froze some to try in the winter. Today we had our [...] Dave of Neco Dracones guessed it! Our other Van Gogh print is The Sunflowers (1888). We always have sunflowers in our garden and bring cuttings in our house throughout the late summer and into the fall. Sunflowers, as my wife puts it, “are just so happy!” This is a picture of our garden from July of last year. I will post other pictures of past gardens soon. When the spring comes, I will show our progress. I am looking through our seed catalogs, figuring out what we want to grow this year. For those who don’t know us, we have a large garden out back. Last year we ate a ton from the garden fresh and in the end did a lot of freezing and canning. We also harvested a bit [...] |
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