Garden

Garden Report - Tomatoes Planted

June 2, 2008

I finally have garden progress to report, today I planted tomatoes. It doesn't look so pretty but I'm using High Yield Tomato Mulch for better water retention and weed prevention. But mostly to reduce blight caused by soil spores that splash up onto the leaves. The "mulch" is also supposed ...

Cookin' in the kitchen

May 30, 2008

The kids and I spent the morning at the Nutrition Center Kitchen cooking with the Lots To Gardens crew, preparing food for a supper & live music fund raiser at the Franco-American Heritage Center tonight. Nutrition Center Kitchen We love what Lots to Gardens does, "challeng(ing) the cycles of poverty ...

Front Yard Chives

May 29, 2008

I used a few techniques presented over at Pioneer Woman Photography to tweak this photo of my front yard chives. Gotta say I love the result. Even though I don't have a kick butt camera I can still manage to take some decent photos and GIMP sure helps for editing ...

May Morning Flowers

May 19, 2008

Raising Beds, Lowering Expectations

May 17, 2008

It started innocently enough when there was still 2 feet of snow on the ground. Reading a book or two that encouraged me to grow more of our own food. Just a few more tomato plants than last year, a couple rows of corn (Brienne's favorite summer vegetable), some strawberries, ...

Garden Report - Mid May is too busy

May 15, 2008

Life's too hectic these days to give a full garden report. I forget from year to year how BUSY May is. Everything seems to collide. The garden, camping, hiking, Celine's birthday and this year I've added the creative pursuits of photography and blogging. In the garden all the early spring ...