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May 28, 2020 Okra & “Fire Lilies” Today we planted okra. Three long rows of okra plants just far enough apart to walk through the rows with the mower for easy weeding, pruning, and harvesting. Yesterday and Tuesday were the 6 by 4 corn patch. The 5 by 4 corn [...]
May 20, 2020 Peppers Have you ever seen a pepper seed? If you’ve had crushed red peppers shaken on your Italian food, you’ve seen the small whitish yellow seeds; the crunchy non-red parts of the seasoning. They are very small – not carrot seed small, but almost four times smaller [...]
May 18, 2020 Watermelons In our garden there are these long snaky vines that we keep training to stay out of the peppers, stop invading the carrot patches, and keep your green tendrils off of the zucchini! They start as wavy delicate yet determined sprouts. Nothing, not even the largest [...]
May 12, 2020 Blighted Tomatoes Today Louis, Thea, and I spent hours clearing the blight from our tomato bushes in the faint hope that we can eradicate the fungus or at least keep it away from the healthy tomatoes until they are harvested. Blight starts harmlessly enough – it looks [...]
May 4, 2020 Tiny Specialized Chicken Coop In preparation for our move and new gardening regime (Louis is moving to raised garden beds), we made our specialized chicken coop tractor. I know, that sounds funny, but our goals were lightweight, easy to move, sturdy, storm proof, and hopefully predator proof. [...]
April 16, 2020 Project at the End Becky has a thing for all animals – but let’s just go out on a limb and say she’s got a special connection with all things feathered. Chickens. Been there, have that. Monk Parrot. Been there, fostered that. Parakeets. Been there – and [...]
February 13, 2020 Temporary Home Sometimes music just hits me. I love to listen to songs of all kinds. One of my newest favorites was from a movie we watched a little bit ago – “Speechless.” Even though as an analyst I understand that wouldn’t have been accurate for the [...]
February 11, 2020 Orchid Care I have a passion for growing things (secretly, I may be a hobbit) and one of my favorite flowers is the Orchid. I’ve never been able to grow them though. Every time Louis brought me one, it died. My best successes were roses – my [...]
September 2, 2019 Becky’s New Semester Who knew my thirteen year old would be bouncing all over the county (okay, not literally) this semester in her activities? Becky decided on two courses this semester. Her online class turned out to be a half-semester starting after her birthday. Her Macroeconomics started [...]