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My neigh­bor stopped by yes­ter­day and I was telling her about my worry about hav­ing too many cucum­bers and “WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH ALL THESE CUCUMBERS?!?” She was a saint and for­warded me some info about all the many uses of a cucum­ber. I haven’t tried these all out, but can’t wait […]

I haven’t men­tioned any­thing about my gar­den in a few weeks. It’s not because it’s turned into a dis­as­ter. Actu­ally it’s just the oppo­site… EVERYTHING IS GROWING LIKE CRAZY!! I’m embar­rassed to say but I have to pull some things because they’re grow­ing TOO well and it’s grow­ing over other things (*cough*lemoncucumber*cough*). Veg­gie gar­den: I’ve […]

“Might I have a bit o’ earth?” I finally got some more veg­gies pop­ping up in my gar­den so here are my first shots of the sea­son: Boomer’s guard­ing it from any crit­ters that might try to sneak into her gar­den. Old­man is try­ing to pick an unripe straw­berry. Sic ‘em Boomer! Uhm…ok, Boomer, lick­ing doesn’t […]

  This year we are try­ing our hands out on raised bed gar­dens. We’ve had plenty of expe­ri­ence with the good, old-fashioned reg­u­lar gar­den beds and we had a great crop last year. We’ve been inter­ested in the raised bed’s for awhile but some friends showed us Len’s Raised Bed Gar­dens and we loved the […]

First of all a cou­ple of con­fes­sions: 1. I skim almost all posts that have to do with Organic/Natural food. It’s exhaust­ing and seems a bit expen­sive. 2. I’m shallow…the less I know, the bet­ter I feel (ie: don’t have to be respon­si­ble for it). Now, with that out of the way…you won’t believe what I […]

The smell of freshly cut grass. Beau­ti­ful, rich dirt with fresh flow­ers planted. Bushes freshly sheared to the per­fect shape. Then the rain comes… I love work­ing the earth with my hands all day, then sit­ting on the porch smelling the rain come in. As soon as the first drops of a Spring rain hits the earth, you […]