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All Things Garden
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. — Abraham Lincoln
All things garden, gardening, landscaping, plants, culinary and medicinal herbs, flowers, fruits and vegetables. I might not always have a green thumb, but I’m having a lot of fun homesteading and experimenting. 99% organic. My husband even set up an indoor greenhouse area for me to play with! There’s just something about getting my hands in the earth that find irresistible. And NOTHING tastes better than food you grow on your own, you can quote me on that one.
I didn’t mean <or more likely remember> to plant wee pumpkins among the (since removed) cucumbers but…there they are. And I love them. 🧡
I transplanted the numerous perpetual spinach vines into SIX hanging pots. They are so eccentric and wonderfully perfect. One of my long-term garden goals was to get this…
Process all the things! Corn, Tomato Sauce and Chicken/Corn Stock. Concord Grapes! <will I leave as juice or make pie?> Vodka Infusions – Grape, Cucamelon & Elderberry. Mandarin…
Lunch. Everything fresh from the garden! I made a Cucamelon Cottage Cheese Tzatziki Dip. HWMMS put it on top of our tomatoes. Sooooo good
Oops. (Not.) I did it again! Got some more seeds in the ground before the 🌧️. Sweet Corn. Sweet Potatoes. Russet Potatoes. Cucumbers. Borage. Radishes. Chard. Lettuce. Bok…
December 29th. There’s supposed to be snow. My little baby bok choy leftover from the autumn is apparently under stress and going to seed. Sigh. It was gorgeous…
From the garden. I went out looking for salad greens. I ended up pulling 125 “volunteer” garlic sprouts that were left behind and found a few green onions….
My #garden goal tonight “thin out” the radishes. Well, well… HWMMS also found about 6 tomatoes but we ate those sweet red orbs immediately, didn’t even consider a photo
Reason #327 He is (Husband) Who Makes Me Smile (HWMMS) – While riding past the cucumber strip on the tractor I hear “HOLY SHIT WE GOT CUCUMBERS!” Hurrah!
Tis the time of year where the weeding is ENDLESS. I found this wee bright spot in one of the strip gardens where I tossed SO MANY MARIGOLD…
I rescued a strip of squash plants from the weeds and ended up thinning out half the patch. I hate killing plants so others will thrive but I’m…
Omggggarlic! This is one of three rows. Wheeeee! Last year was a bust, this year BOOM! MY GARDEN SOUL IS SO HAPPY! 🧄🧄🧄
Oh and the giant clump of plants I thinned out earlier this year? I thought it was marjoram because I found a tag labeled as such nearby…nope, pennyroyal….
Pretty Purple Pea Pods on the Porch. Check out how ridiculous the porch peas are…stretching wayyyy out towards the sun. 💚
Latest herbal tea concoction. Borage & Pineapple Sage w/ Lemon & Honey. Pineapple Sage is my favorite.
Harvesting time! First round of oregano (making ALL THE OREGANO OIL THIS YEAR) thyme, purple sage, pineapple sage (one of my most favorite tea flavors) and round 3…
