Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

State of the Farm: Pandemic Edition

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The girls amuse themselves at home with Henna freckles  DQ2 - day two of “quarantine.” We aren’t officially quarantined, of course, and not ...
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Tuesday, October 1, 2019

October Altar (Waste Not)

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An enormous volunteer squash plant grew out of our compost pile this summer. This happens not infrequently, and because squash vines love r...
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Thursday, March 24, 2016

State of the Farm (Spring Equinox)

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grey spring I know, I'm a few days late on the equinox. That's okay, I feel like I'm a few days late on everything the...
Monday, April 27, 2015

Homero's New Toy (the Craigslist Chronicles)

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A few weeks ago, Homero made a spectacular find on Craigslist - a Case loader for under a thousand dollars, more or less in running con...
Sunday, March 1, 2015

State of the Farm, Early Spring 2015

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This has been, nearly, a year without a winter. We had a hard freeze and a few inches of snow way back in November, and several frosts over ...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Seed Catalogue Season (Plant Porn)

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My daughter Rowan started a garden a few years ago; a big garden, with the idea that she would have a booth at the local farmer...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

We're Having Authenticity For Dinner (Tepache)

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tepache in the garage We are having a pretty simple supper tonight: pan fried trout, baked potatoes, and braised red cabbage. It smell...
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Thursday, August 21, 2014

Harvest Time (Buckets Of Spuds)

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Yesterday I harvested all the rest of the chiles off my cayenne plants. There were a few green ones hanging on, but most of them were...
Friday, May 16, 2014

Spring Pictures (Voyeurism)

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It may be the middle of May, but spring is finally in full swing here in the upper northwest. We have enjoyed nearly an entire week of very ...
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Monday, April 21, 2014

What's Wrong With These Pictures?

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The pear tree is in full bloom. The sun is out and the temperature is near sixty degrees. This tree ought to be crawling with bees, but...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

State of the Farm (Spring Equinox)

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When two feet of snow melts, it leaves a lot of water. For more than a week, there was a tiny running stream going out the driveway and i...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Signs of Spring

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This picture was taken last week, at my local park by the river. Chunks of ice were floating merrily along downstream, but this bush - w...
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Monday, January 27, 2014

Spud 'Speriment (Potato Poetry)

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Today I was cleaning out the kitchen drawers. There's a big drawer on the bottom, lined with brown paper bags, that I use for potatoes a...
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Saturday, August 10, 2013

Tree Trouble (What the Hell is Wrong With These Plums?)

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Sometimes I despair of the orchard. I really do. There are so many factors conspiring against trees here; some of them natural, others d...
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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Garden Log for March (Out Like a Lion)

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Although the weather has turned cold and nasty again after a few glorious days of sunshine last week, I have still been out gardening in the...
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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Spring Cleaning (At Last)

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The last two days have been extremely gorgeous. After my months of complaining about the chilly, soggy weather, it amazes me how quickly my...
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