Category: garden
Fertile Fridays: Rain Be Gone!
This month certainly feels like it’s been one rain storm after another. Ok. Maybe it feels that way because it has been that way. We’ve had so few opportunities to get outside and enjoy our yard and work on creating more edible areas. But when we have had the opportunity, we’ve capitalized on it – [...]
Fertile Fridays: Gardening is So Fulfilling
Tomatoes! Tomatoes! There are real, albeit tiny, tomatoes on our vines! And tons of blossoms just waiting to burst into more tomatoes. The funny thing is that it’s the sungold cherry tomatoes that are growing at lightning speed, while the early tomatoes I planted are ho-humming along. Go figure. The broccoli is flowering big now, [...]
Fertile Fridays: Broccoli Flowers?
We harvested and ate most of the broccoli. But, being novices, we failed to harvest this head in time. Did you ever wonder what happens to broccoli left to grow too long? It becomes a beautiful mass of yellow flowers … who knew? I also trimmed away some of the larger leaves on the spinach [...]
Fertile Fridays: First Harvest
We’ve been sort of counting down until we could happily pluck the fresh heads of broccoli from our garden … today, we did just that — while making dinner. There was something amazing about running outside, plucking a few of the heads and then washing and preparing it. The broccoli literally went from garden plot [...]
Fertile Fridays: May Showers Bring June Flowers?
Between rain and a nasty virus going around our house most of the week, I’ve barely looked outside — let alone ventured beyond my front door. Seriously. It’s been brutal. But today, the rain finally subsided and the sunlight started to stream through the clouds again … so out we went. (What you can’t see [...]
Fertile Fridays: Sweet Success
As someone who hasn’t had much luck in the past with gardening, I am constantly amazed and wowed when I look out my office window. Greeted with a large ball of catmint, yellow and fuchsia (when I tried to think of the word for the color, all I could think was magenta … I think [...]
Fertile Fridays: Oh My Broccoli!
Can you see that? That tiny little beginning of broccoli stopped me dead in my tracks today. I had already written this post and just needed the photos to go with it … then I saw that little spurt of broccoli and I couldn’t contain myself. Ooooh. I am so unspeakably excited. It’s really growing!!! [...]
Fertile Fridays: Up, Up and Away!
Rain, rain, rain. Sun. Rain, rain, rain. Sun. That’s been the weather pattern here for the majority of the last week or so. And what does weather like that mean for the foliage? It means lots of growth (yay!) and lots of very tall weeds (boo!). If the weather can hold off for long enough, [...]
Fertile Fridays: Rained Out
Each Friday, I let you have a peek into my garden. This is the first year that my garden has been progressing in such clear and certain order, and I am so excited to share it. This week, I really wanted to show you the beginnings of blueberries that appeared on the blueberry bushes, promise [...]
Fertile Fridays: Totally Grounded
Will talked all last week about eating outside. We have our table and chairs set up by our newly appointed flower garden and he just couldn’t wait to use it. So, when Sunday evening rolled around, Shawn started up the grill and I got everything we needed onto a tray to carry outside. It was [...]
