animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

garden 2016

My garden is kind of blah this year. I’m not sure what the problem is. It doesn’t seem to be as far along at this point as normal. For example, last year, by this time, I had already canned a batch of pickles. This year, I’ve only collected a handful …

critters

The critters are doing me in this summer. Something (chipmunks, I’m guessing) keeps digging up the larger seeds (beans, peas and the like) that I’ve planted. If they miss one and the seed actually grows into a plant, something else eats the plant. I guess I need to pull out …

that’s better

Due to the weather (snow, rain, what-have-you), I haven’t been able to do much outside this month. It’s just as well, because we’ve been kind of busy. I did manage to make some headway in the garden last night. But, the rest of the yard is overrun with weeds and …

garden kick off

It was kind of nice this week, so I got a few things planted in the garden–namely, peas and onions. There’s a lot of work to do out there as the warm winter didn’t do much to kill off the weeds. But, I guess that’s going to have to wait …

bad start

It’s still only March and the gardening season is already off to a bad start. I was outside the other day and saw that most of my garlic didn’t make it through the winter. I’m actually blaming the mild temperatures on this one as they grew a lot more than …