Fertile Friday: Back Again

Posted on September 12, 2009 - Filed Under garden | 2 Comments

Say hello to my little friend …

Oh, yes, we finally have pumpkins. Quite a few in fact. So I am cautiously (after this season of rain, rain, rain, blight, heat, heat, heat, who wouldn’t be?) optimistic that we may actually get to harvest some pumpkins this season. Here’s to hoping.

Fertile Fridays: Thank Goodness for Rain

Posted on August 22, 2009 - Filed Under garden | 2 Comments

Earlier this summer, rain punctuated each day. We were in a state of constant gray, which was anything but fun. These past few weeks have been quite the opposite — A string of hot, unyielding humidity and anything by rain. The plants have been drooping and sagging under the heat of the sun. It’s like [...]

Fertile Fridays: A Heavy Look at Farms and Gardening

Posted on August 9, 2009 - Filed Under garden | 3 Comments

To my wonderful readers — Sorry I am late with this week’s Fertile Fridays post! I was so busy with deadlines, that I had to set this aside for a day … now, onto the update.

I have probably mentioned before that my cousins are farmers and operate an organic farm. I buy a lot of [...]

Fertile Fridays: Pumpkins on the Run

Posted on August 1, 2009 - Filed Under garden | 5 Comments

Oh my. Apparently, the pumpkins really like the sunshine and occasionally bouts of heavy rain. In the past week, the leaves have gone from what I thought was a good size to enormous and they have extended vine fingers into my lawn … with curly-ques that are wrapping around whatever they can reach. It’s sort [...]

Foraging On My Own Property

Posted on July 27, 2009 - Filed Under garden, green living | 5 Comments

That is a palmful of some blissfully juicy, sweet-tart wild blackberries. So tasty.
Last week, I noticed something red in a bush along my driveway while pulling out to go to the store. I didn’t stop at the time, and I mentally wrote it off as some inedible red berries like the perfectly round and frosty-exterior [...]

Fertile Fridays: Raining Again?

Posted on July 25, 2009 - Filed Under garden | Leave a Comment

It felt like rain threatened to come all day. The grey clouds hung around like unwanted party guests who don’t know when to leave. And just when it was clear that they overstayed their welcome, it rained. In fact, it’s still raining now.
No matter. I have something exciting to show you.

Fertile Fridays: EATEN!

Posted on July 11, 2009 - Filed Under garden | 7 Comments

Growing food at home is hard. Really hard. And not in the way I expected it to be. I expected it to be challenging to get plants to grow strong enough to grow up and develop into good. That was the easy part, as it turns out. The hard part? Keeping the critters away from [...]

Fertile Fridays: Rain Be Gone!

Posted on June 27, 2009 - Filed Under garden | 1 Comment

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

Posted on June 20, 2009 - Filed Under garden | 1 Comment

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, so [...]

Fertile Fridays: Broccoli Flowers?

Posted on June 12, 2009 - Filed Under garden | 3 Comments

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 plant [...]

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