It’s not just the economy seeing a downturn
Posted on November 3, 2008 - Filed Under compost, cost of living, economy, frost, pecans, planting, seeds, spinach, sunflowers, trees, vegetables | Leave a Comment
Our gardens and our pecan trees seem to be following in the footsteps of our economy. Not much there.
Summer gardens did really well. Just about everything grew well and bore fruit. My pepper and eggplants are still going strong. Yet we had meager returns on seeds planted this fall. Out of 15+ seeds planted for [...]
Summer Harvest
Posted on August 18, 2007 - Filed Under Uncategorized, farm maintenance, herbs, spinach, sunflowers, vegetables | Leave a Comment
So I’ve decided to list and describe the vegetables we’ve been able to harvest and, most importantly, eat so far. The one thing I’ve noticed they all have in common is none are like anything I’ve bought in a grocery store. Now, that’s both good and bad.
Even though you go into most grocery [...]
Beach time
Posted on June 28, 2007 - Filed Under about us, farm maintenance, spinach, sunflowers, vacation, vegetables, weather | Leave a Comment
So the spinach has been pantyhosed and is on its way to the big spinach garden in the sky. It didn’t die of embarrassment from the ill-fitting and baggy hosiery. It successfully fulfilled its spinach bearing duties, flowered and is slowly and peacefully becoming compost. The pantyhose is to catch the seeds which will hopefully [...]
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