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Goodness, the month of June has flown by! My youngest grandson stayed with me this month and I really enjoyed his visit. Despite being dragged into participating in many of my tasks and projects, he said he had a good time, too. In addition… Continue Reading “AND JUST LIKE THAT, IT’S OVER”
Good news #1: The temperatures have warmed up significantly so today I planted a mix of lettuces, radishes, kale, and basil in my two raised bed planters. None of these are things I eat – they will be greens for the chickens. Last year… Continue Reading “GOOD NEWS AND MORE GOOD NEWS”
It’s the end of an era: I have dumped the worm bin! I first acquired the worms two and a half years ago. They are the easiest critters to take care of and the worm castings have provided wonderful fertilizer for the garden. I’ve… Continue Reading “WORMS’ END”
I picked my first batch of green peppers the other day. Look what I got off the 4 plants I have in the garden: I only planted green peppers this year as I had so many dehydrated and frozen hot peppers from the past… Continue Reading “PEPPERS GALORE”
Since we have a long growing season in central North Carolina, we can actually get two crops of squash out of a season. Well, that is, except for the squash bugs. One of this year’s experiments involved waiting until the usual squash bug season… Continue Reading “SQUASH IT”
As I was watering this morning, I found an unwelcome visitor: The chickens were much more accommodating. It was gone in one gulp! The rest of the garden had nothing but good news. The cucumber plants are finally fully committed to climbing up the… Continue Reading “FROM UNWELCOME TO WELCOME IN ONE GULP”
When I was growing up Alaska, my mom could not grow carrots. Not because the environment was inhospitable, not because of the permafrost (though that could cause short carrots), but because I would not stay out of the carrot patch. I thought there was… Continue Reading “BIGGEST HARVEST EVER”
Sometimes, the endless watering of the garden causes one to wonder if you’ll ever see a payoff. Well, yesterday I found this: See those itty bitty, eensy weensy bell peppers?!
The fun thing about gardening in the South is that you can have something to harvest almost year-round. I have been cutting my lettuce bed every other day to give to the chickens. Today’s harvest, though, has highly anticipated: I harvested the garlic bed… Continue Reading “HARVEST TIME”
This was another dry weekend, and the afternoon temperature was in the 50’s so the first step in this year’s garden was taken! Oscar put together the two garden beds I purchased toward the end of last summer (when I realized I should stick… Continue Reading “IT BEGINS”
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