Category Archives: Gardening

I haven’t posted much about the gardens this year, so you have already missed peony season, but we’re getting ready for tons of blooms coming up. I need to put up some more plant supports for some of my late starting dahlias that are just now starting to come up. This bed is generally notContinue reading “The Cutting Garden”

And happy about it! Last fall, I posted about planting blueberry bushes and rhubarb plants on the east and west sides of our garden shed. We have had a relatively mild and really rainy spring, so they have really done well. The blueberry bushes are really loaded for such young plants. I’m excited to haveContinue reading “Reaping what we sowed….”

As you might remember, we made the vegetable garden on the south side of the house bigger last year so that I could grow more tomatoes. I grew a ton of roma tomatoes, but still didn’t get enough at one time to do all my canning. So this year, I am growing primarily Cherokee PurpleContinue reading “The vegetable garden”