Monthly Archives: May 2015

And So The Garden Grows

I spent the mooring in the garden picking off the cabbage worms and squishing them.  When it is dry we dust to try and keep the worms out but when it is rainy the best way is to just pick … Continue reading

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Finished the Spinach

Very busy morning!!  We started by cleaning up the big wash tub in the back yard so we could wash the spinach out there and keep the wet mess out of the cellar kitchen.  Then right after breakfast we both … Continue reading

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Spinach going to Seed

Yesterday it was cool and cloudy all day so we took the time to pick and freeze spinach and do some baking.  Norman picked and cleaned the spinach and then chopped it up and froze five quarts while I made … Continue reading

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Perfect Day for the Garden

Yesterday we got 1/4 inch of rain and then this morning at 6:30 we got another quarter of an inch so the ground was just wet enough to make weeding easy.  We went to the lower garden and side dressed … Continue reading

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Time for an Update on the Garden

Yesterday we got five more tomato plants.  This is the third planting.  The first four we put in when we set out the broccoli and cauliflower plants.  It was really too early to put them out as the black berries … Continue reading

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Need Rain !!

We have been having a very dry period now for two weeks and the gardens really need some good rain.  They forecast rain but we don’t get it here on the mountain.  Even this week when they warned us all … Continue reading

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Moving Right Along

The gardens are now all set.  Norman finished hoeing the potatoes and the potatoes are starting to grow.  They are about the size of a walnut right now so we should be able to eat them in a week or … Continue reading

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Summer is back

It has been too many days since I last talked with you so now I will show you how everything is growing except the blueberries.  AH–the poor blueberries.  90% of the promise froze in that ice storm the first week … Continue reading

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