Animals
- Happiness Is A Garden!
After two days of drenching rain, the clouds started to break apart yesterday afternoonand the equines headed out into the front pasture. The horses seem to have accepted the donkeys into their herd, but the donkeys are still a little insecure and stay...
- Gardening
Seeds for this summer's garden have started to arrive. This year I am trying some new vegetables.Parsnips... Red Dragon Carrots... Red Emperor Beans.... and Romanesco Cauliflower.... These are just a few of the varieties of veggies that will...
- Garden Views
I am so happy I could just dance! "Why?" you ask. Because gardening in my raised boxes is such a joy.... and the boxes are growing like gangbusters!This box is loaded with sugar peas and a couple of cabbages in the front. The sugar peas are just...
- Garden Party
The really warm weather that we had last week may be gone for now, but signs of Spring still remain. This past weekend Hubbs and I finished moving oak bark mulch into the vegetable garden. (A big thanks to our adopted "son" Tim for moving...
- A Garden Takes Shape
After many hours of tilling and raking, the plot of land that once was a beautiful vegetable garden is again starting to take shape. The rows of strawberries are uncovered and stretching their leafy arms towards the sun. The soil is soft and teeming...
Animals
Harvesting
Up at the crack of dawn....
and out to do the animal chores.
Once those were completed, I headed to the garden to do some
watering, weeding and harvesting.
It was even too early for my usual help...
While so much of the country is dealing with storms and bad weather woes,
making gardening at best difficult;
we in the Northeast have been blessed with perfect spring and summer conditions.
My garden is maturing early this year,
thanks to an early spring, lots of warm, sunny days
and the perfect amount of rain.
I have been able to start to harvest sugar peas, beets, green beans,
broccoli, blueberries, black raspberries
while still getting asparagus, lettuce, rhubarb, and strawberries.
Here is one day's harvest...
Hickory says "Bleck! vegetables!!"
"Where's the meat?"
Now, to pickle the beets,
make strawberry rhubarb jam,
and blanch the sugar peas to freeze.
PS....while I was harvesting a Northern Flicker was singing to me from the garden fence.
My camera was not close enough to get a picture this time....but I will get one some day.
- Happiness Is A Garden!
After two days of drenching rain, the clouds started to break apart yesterday afternoonand the equines headed out into the front pasture. The horses seem to have accepted the donkeys into their herd, but the donkeys are still a little insecure and stay...
- Gardening
Seeds for this summer's garden have started to arrive. This year I am trying some new vegetables.Parsnips... Red Dragon Carrots... Red Emperor Beans.... and Romanesco Cauliflower.... These are just a few of the varieties of veggies that will...
- Garden Views
I am so happy I could just dance! "Why?" you ask. Because gardening in my raised boxes is such a joy.... and the boxes are growing like gangbusters!This box is loaded with sugar peas and a couple of cabbages in the front. The sugar peas are just...
- Garden Party
The really warm weather that we had last week may be gone for now, but signs of Spring still remain. This past weekend Hubbs and I finished moving oak bark mulch into the vegetable garden. (A big thanks to our adopted "son" Tim for moving...
- A Garden Takes Shape
After many hours of tilling and raking, the plot of land that once was a beautiful vegetable garden is again starting to take shape. The rows of strawberries are uncovered and stretching their leafy arms towards the sun. The soil is soft and teeming...