Tag Archive | "vegetables"
Just a Little Walk Around the Gardens
We’re in the bowels of autumn now. I tore myself away from the computer to go out and see how my gardens have been doing. I ignored them ALL spring and summer. Thank God gardens bounce back. I will attend to them in the spring. My Secret Garden looks very forlorn. Leaves collecting on the [...]
Continue reading...My Organic Seeds Arrived
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
UPDATE! See what High Mowing Seeds has to say about my shipping and packaging complaint. WHOA!!! They rock! —————- I decided to go 100% non-Monsanto, 100% organic with the garden this year. No funky seeds, no funky fertilizers, no funky pesticides. It’s expensive to go organic, lol. My seeds from High Mowing Seeds, a small [...]
Continue reading...The Last Few Projects
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
We’re attempting to wrap up a few things around the house and yard before winter’s icy grip. It’s been raining non-stop for a few days, and the garden is a large patch of mud right now. I managed to get out between showers and dig up some potatoes. We still have about 10 hills of [...]
Continue reading...Harvest Time
Thursday, August 27, 2009
We spent some time today out in the gardens, now that the humidity is down and it is FINALLY not raining. The weather is gorgeous– sunny, crisp air, and 70 degrees! I’m loving it! We checked the condition of the vegetable beds. I haven’t spent nearly enough time in them this year. That, and the [...]
Continue reading...Tomato Blight Plague Comes from Supplier
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Unbelievable. ORISKANY, N.Y. (WKTV) – There’s a disease that’s hitting tomato plants across the northeast and it may have found its way to your own garden here in Central New York. Officials out in Oriskany from the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Oneida County say the big box retail stores in our area : Walmart, K-Mart, [...]
Continue reading...Victory Gardens are “In” Again
Friday, April 17, 2009
As much as I hate to call gardens a “trend” (I think they should be more a “lifestyle”), the Victory Garden of the 1940s is having a comeback. The nice thing about dirt is that it’s everywhere. And where’s dirt, there can be a garden! Some call them “recession gardens.” Others label them revivals of [...]
Continue reading...Buying Seeds Online
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
I’m a little late in my garden-planning this year. I usually have the beds all mapped out by February. But it’s been a tad busy here and I haven’t even thought about gardening yet! :-O But now I am starting to gear up. I’m going to keep things simple this year. Whereas I exprimented with [...]
Continue reading...Play With That Food!
Thursday, October 9, 2008
This video is called “The Vegetable Orchestra” and shows people making and playing vegetables as musical instruments. As I watched it, and had to wonder: is this for real?! Are they really making clarinet sounds with that carrot, or has it been overdubbed? It’s a rather long video, but the most interesting part is when [...]
Continue reading...My Tater Plants
Monday, July 21, 2008
My garden is not as varied and not as luxurious as last year’s. But pardon me if I brag a little about my potato plants. Aren’t they gorgeous?! I planted almost an entire bed of them– they are Adirondack Reds. These are the seed potatoes when I planted them in May. I’ve never planted this [...]
Continue reading...I’m Rebecca
:) I’m a married mom of four teenage children. We live in Upstate New York. We bought an old 1855 home and acre property, over 10 years ago. We've been in the slow, agonizing process of living in the home while (trying) to renovate it. When I'm not renovating, I'm a freelance writer and blogger.
We've learned to dig a French drain, plant huge flower and vegetable gardens, wire a circuit panel, install furnace ducting, understand the enigmatic complexities of the plumbing system, and more. It's been *quite* the adventure.
You can read more about us here, read up on the history of the home, and read about what we've renovated so far. Thanks for visiting!
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