Harvest

Oh, dear, it’s been over a MONTH since I posted here! I can’t believe it. My only excuse is that I’ve been busy gestating. Our baby is now officially three days overdue, actually. There hasn’t been much action out in the garden since early autumn. My husband, Graham, helped me out...
Read more »

I bought several varieties of peppers for the garden this year, and of course when it came time to harvest them, I didn’t remember which ones I planted where. This isn’t usually a problem because although peppers are similar, at maturity they are different enough to be able to identify. However, I...
Read more »

One of the tasks on my weekend list of garden chores was to harvest the catnip that was doing its best to go to seed in the back yard.  This was one of the things I actually got done, and now there are about a dozen large bunches of the stuff drying in my...
Read more »

My friend Kelly gave me a cutting from her blackberries and I planted it outside the kitchen door, near the herb garden.  I realize this means that someday soon I’ll have to carry a machete to hack my way through the patch into the kitchen, but with the fruit growing closer to the house,...
Read more »

As I sit in my living room this early morning drinking my coffee, I can see the vegetable patch out the back windows of our house.  One of the most prominent features of the garden right now are the brightly coloured blooms on the zucchini plants. I always grow zucchini in my garden as I...
Read more »