I’ve always had a fascination for moss. I remember my grandmother had a root cellar that we always called the “dairy” that was a really scary concrete building dug back into the hill behind their house. It was scary because I was a little girl and there were great humongous katydids all over the ceiling [...]
Archive of entries posted on May 2010
Irrigation Time
After the extremely wet season we had last year, I was a little reluctant to install the drip tapes in the garden–seems like when they were installed last year is when the clouds wouldn’t quit watering the gardens. With a year-round creek, small pond, pump, and drip lines, this farm is better equipped for drought [...]
The Perfect Scarecrow
I’ve seen lots of scarecrows in my gardening life, and sometimes I think the scarecrows are more for us humans than they are to actually scare crows away. The coolest scarecrow I’ve seen was named Esmerelda and she had a really neat hand painted gourd head, mardi-gras beads, boobs, cool dress, and I don’t know [...]
Home grown veggies and water hoses
Happy Mother’s Day! I went to visit my mom and dad, sisters, brother in laws, nephews, etc., today and we had a wonderful picnic on an absolutely gorgeous spring day. There is a bumper crop of bibb lettuce at the farm this year, so I picked a bag for each sister and my parents. I [...]
Am I losing it?
Today was one of those days when you wake up, know that you’ve got at least a million things to do, and the weather is cooperating. I started out by grabbing the weedeater and the mixed gas can, which had only about 1/2 cup in it, and I headed for the blackberry patch. For some [...]
Who cooks for you, who cooks for you-all?
That’s the song I’m listening to as I relax after the first delivery of the season. All went well; there were several cool weather crops ready for harvest; spinach, bibb lettuce, gourmet salad mix, radishes, beet greens, some swiss chard, and a little arugula. The critter singing the song is a Barred Owl. I don’t [...]