Big, fluffy snowflakes fell yesterday and it felt as though Mother Nature was trying to remind me that it is not yet Spring and not yet planting season. Being in Ohio, our garden doesn’t even get planted until May and this is February, after all. But tomatoes and peppers and eggplant…
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Tonight we picked the last of the peppers in the garden. The plants are still trying to flower but I doubt we’ll get much more from them. I also grabbed the only good cob of corn – we have some other, smaller ones on the stalks still, but they’re not…
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The first bloom on the clematis trellis we built earlier this summer, and a second one closely behind on the second plant. I’m very thankful that my raised bed/trellis idea has worked out. The distressed clematis plants we picked up for cheap have done really well in their new home.…
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Found this little guy on my roses yesterday as I was out cutting a few for a little vase in the kitchen.
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Another gray, cool morning. I quite like it. Fixed myself a hot cup of tea this morning. We visited a new local farmer’s market Friday evening and I picked myself up a small jar of local honey. They had a few different shades you could try, and I ended up…
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Yesterday I spent time laboring hard in the garden. Weeds were growing and I needed to get in there before they completely got out of hand. Which then reminded me of how hard it is to tell weed sprouts sometimes from actual veggie sprouts. It’s not so bad with the…