animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

fall garden

After removing some spent plants, I ended up having a large empty space in the garden. So, I dug through my seeds to find out what I could plant for fall. I’ve tried planting seeds for fall before, but have only had luck with broccoli rabe. But, since I had …

my melons

A few years ago, I tried growing watermelons from some plants that I bought at a local nursery. I believe I got one watermelon–approximately the size of a quarter–for my efforts. Not all that refreshing, really. But, a friend and fellow gardener introduced me to the “Sugar Baby” watermelon. Since …

garlic braids

I’ve been wanting to try my hand at braiding garlic for some time now. I finally got around to doing that tonight. It was pretty easy and looks cool so I think I’m going to do that with all of the garlic from my garden (and the onions, too). My …

fushing feefs

So, I was all excited the other week because my fruit trees were bearing fruit. I went to the trouble of ordering nylon footies to put on each piece of fruit so that they would not get eaten by bugs. One day recently, I noticed one of the nylon footies …