A Different Winter Plan

Each year I wait out winter with a very long lists of things I must and things I want to get done around the garden.  There are trellises and fences to be built.  Things to be painted and stained.  Reordering and rearranging to be done….
I sit watching the rain and wait…and wait some more.
At the [...]

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You know you’re a Gardener when…

When a line of plastic garbage bags gets you excited!

Want to know what’s in my bags…bettcha do!
It’s beautiful, and nutritious…

Look!  Fo0d for my garden…lovely leaves destined to be shredded and put down as much.  To break down into lovely healthy soil for next year’s garden.

Yep…you know you’re a gardener when you are thrilled by plastic [...]

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Simple Season Extender I’ve got Bell Peppers!

I have always wanted to extend my growing season.  I have not wanted to invest the money in a greenhouse.  Well if there was money I suppose I would!  Anyway I have found and easy, cheap, simple way to extend my zone 8 Pacific Northwest season!
My tomatoes have long shriveled and turned black from our [...]

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Garden medley

Heirloom or hybrid?  Purists would have you believe gardening is an all or none proposition.  I think you can have both if you choose to.  A garden is a personal expression of the person who tends it.  I know farmers who plant nothing but hybrids and others who plant only open pollinated crops.  Either is [...]

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Farm Life one Photograph at a Time…

I know you all come here for great information on a wide range of topics from gardening to canning to animal husbandry.  Sorry I have nothing profound or even useful for you this morning.  What I do have is what I love…
What I obsess about…
What I drive my family crazy over.
You see I have two [...]

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Getting Saucy…Raw Tomato Sauce

Making raw tomato sauce, no cooking allowed on this one. Nutritious, delicious, and easy!

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Should I plant a cover crop?

It seems like I was just fretting about planting the garden, and now it is frenzy of harvesting and preserving.  But in the back of my mind on these cool nights, is that fall isn’t too far off and winter will be here before I know it.
I plant a variety of cover crops, and I [...]

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Pushing Potato Pots!

WhooHoo…we harvested our first potatoes!
We tipped over one of our potato barrels and one smaller pot…and had so much fun doing it!

I haven’t grown potatoes in years and never before in barrels…it worked very well indeed!

There was no worry about cutting into the potatoes with a shovel as your dug up the hills…

All we had [...]

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Permanent Solutions…

I have a friend, she has a lovely garden with blooming flower borders, lacy trees for shade, a darling garden house, a huge play-set for her grandchildren, and this…

A vegetable garden that has taken many of her gardening issues and solved them…permanently!
You see as a teenager she broke her neck, she has had serious neck issues [...]

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Yellow…the ‘Look at Me!’ color

This is a post about what I love about gardening.  I find the whole process fulfilling and interesting…sometimes I find that it is just plain entertaining, those of you that know me know that I am so easily entertained!
As I was going through my (you couldn’t believe how many) photos I started noticing something…

There was [...]

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