The Birds and the Bees… and Garden Things

Our chicks arrived on Mother's Day.  I am so excited about our new arrivals!  I ordered a couple of Rhode Island Reds to replace the ones we've lost over the years.  They are just the best winter layers; we have never had a winter without eggs, and I don't use an artificial heat source.  This [...]

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Garden 2009

Meh.  Not a banner year in ye ol' garden…  summer started too late and some things fared better than others.  The peas and lettuce thrived, but my heat lovers (peppers, tomatoes, zucchini) have struggled.  I just harvest my first beefsteak tomato in mid August– practically a whole month later than usual.  They are coming in [...]

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The Garden Crazies

I am up to my elbows in garden planning for the upcoming season.  I have gardening books, seed catalogs, graph paper and piles of magazine cut-outs littering most of the space on my desk and side table… it's spreading to the kitchen, my night stand, even the car!!  I do it to myself every year, [...]

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A Gardener’s Bio

I first got the gardening bug about 4 years ago (2002).  At the time, we were living on a very small property (quarter of an acre) that had almost no place for a garden.  The back yard had a large overgrown wooded area and a very large in ground pool.  The front was too shaded [...]

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