animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

full freezer

Despite it being a busy weekend, I still managed to do some gardening-related stuff. Today was the only evening I got to spend outside, though. Unfortunately, it was spent weeding (I did a lot of weeding this year). While I hate weeding, I have to say, the yard looks pretty …

holy cabbage, batman!

Here’s a picture of the gargantuan cabbage I harvested from my garden today. Unfortunately, the other two cabbages in the garden are nowhere near this size, but, I’m sure I will have more than enough for a batch of sauerkraut. In other gardening news, I picked my first ripe tomatoes …

harvest

Lots of activity in the vegetable garden. We finished the last of the snap peas last week. They were good as always and I planted just the right amount so that we didn’t OD on them. The garlic came out last week, too. It seemed a bit early to me, …

new path

The guys put in a new garden path for me this evening. It’s a little rough at this point, but we went with the quick method of turning over the sod and laying the rocks on top of it. So, it still needs filled in and whatnot, but I’m going …

pond=fixed

The pond has been running for a few days with no loss of water, so I’m proclaiming it fixed! In addition to fixing numerous leaks in the stream, I also had to rebuild the spillway for the waterfall. Somehow, the spillway rock got tilted backwards so the water was ending …