I think we all need a reminder of what’s ahead
With much of the country experiencing snow, ice, and other chilling winter weather, I know, myself, I sure like thinking ahead to warmer weather, starting seeds, planting gardens, and watching flowers bloom and vegetables...
Winter is here!
It's been threatening to arrive so we've been super busy since I got back from my mini-vacation to Yellowstone National Park. There were still potatoes to dig, more dry beans to pull, all the...
It must be spring; the bulldozer started!
Well it feels like spring. Today it was 43 degrees and melting snow like crazy. I had transplanted peppers all afternoon in the sunshine, in the greenhouse. When David got home from school, he...
Q and A: wheat bran flakes and cold-hardy grape vines
Wheat bran flakes
I think my wheat bran flakes are off ... rancid maybe, but I wouldn't know for sure. It smells different, not pleasant, so I assume that is what rancid smells like. Does...
The grasshoppers are gone
Suddenly, as in almost overnight, our grasshopper plague has ended! I hadn't even noticed until Will mentioned it. No more clouds of grasshoppers flying up in front of us when we walk in the...