They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
Busy day last Tuesday. We dug all the taters. This year we planted German Butterball variety. We had never tried them before, but they had the word "butter" in the title, so Mommy had to have them. We also found a volunteer tomato, looks like it came from one of last year's costolutos. Lots of… Continue reading Taters and Wheat
Here it is, September. The gardening season is about over, because it has been getting cool and rainy again, and now... Now! the garden has decided to wake up and make something of itself. Get in my belly, corn! Tomatoes just beginning to turn, corn beginning to tassel out. Let's see if anything can manage… Continue reading Garden Update
Like Saint Paul, I boast willingly of my weakness… The ultimate gardening fail, buying tomatoes from the store in August.
Last fall when the tomatoes were coming in like it was their job, we didn’t have time to sauce them, so we put them all in the freezer. Purists will no doubt shudder to their very marrows at the thought, but hey, we do what we can. The problem is that it is another example… Continue reading A very saucy post
Cold, blustery, rainy, gray. Typical early April day in the Pacific Northwest. But inside the cold frames, it is plenty warm enough to start some seeds.
Yesterday was a very truncated day at the farm, but we still managed to get a good chunk of work done. The tomatoes have been splitting like crazy with all the rain we've been getting, but we still managed to pick three buckets of good ones. Ellie is such a good little tomato washer! We… Continue reading Autumn Pumpkins
Busy day in the garden today. Still having issues with blossom end rot on the tomatoes, and then, with all the rain we’ve gotten for the last two days a bunch of them are starting to split. Pigs made out like bandits. Still several quarts worth saving. Ellie washed them and we cored them to… Continue reading I been picking beans
A very productive day of garden yesterday. All kinds of harvesting going on. Tomato yield has been improving, we were able to get four quarts of sauce tomatoes in the freezer. We had about twice that many with end rot on them, so we are going to treat them with calcium again as soon as… Continue reading ‘Maters and Corns and Beans, Oh my!
We sent the kids out to pick tomatoes yesterday. I guess you could call this mission success. And ten minutes later… “Daddy, let me in, I picked some more!” Oh, and a bunch of grapes that they were Not supposed to pick, but somehow it got picked anyway. So… Anyone want some snacking tomatoes?
Little Farm in the Big City 