Yesterday, Edie and I met at her house to try to get her spinning wheel up and running. A friend of hers loaned it to her, and before she invests in her own, she wanted to be sure that spinning on a wheel was what she wanted to do. She’s already an accomplished spindler, but [...]
No pictures today, but here’s what we’ve got: teeny green beans, tiny cucumbers, lots of small green tomatoes, flowers on all the squash, at least 1 pepper on every pepper plant, flowers have appeared on the eggplants, and lots of lettuce & swiss chard… Technorati Tags: Garden, gardening
Wow-this is today’s salad made entirely from the garden-arugula, romaine, bib and other lettuce. Too bad the cukes & peppers aren’t ready yet! Technorati Tags: Garden, gardening
Today is the feast day of St. Anthony, and Dad and I always wished each other a “Happy Name Day” on June 13th. My husband and I were in the kitchen earlier, he was seated by the table, I was standing by the sink, and the TV was on, and the remote was on the [...]
Uh-oh… There was a spot on the cucumber leaves when I took the picture the other day. A (as in single) spot. Now? Many of the leaves have spots, so I went to my trusted local garden center & found out it’s a fungus. I sprinkled the powder they recommended on the leaves (also good [...]
Things are growing like gangbusters! Beans: Squash: Blackberries: Oooh – a ripe one hiding! Peppers, eggplant, squash, cukes, beans, lettuce, chard: Look! A pepper: More blackberries: Tomatoes: Tomatoes, squash, lettuce: Tomato: Cukes: Technorati Tags: Food, Garden, gardening
With the record heat we’ve been having, I haven’t been spinning, since it’s too hot to spin with socks on, and I won’t put my bare feet on the treadles. While zipping around Ravelry, I found a thread where a poster described making treadle covers for her Majacraft Rose from a lambswool car-washing mitt. TA-DA! [...]
Now I understand why my husband dislikes having trees near the house: This isn’t even our tree-it just fell from next door onto our front lawn. Technically, it isn’t even a tree, just a branch, but the trunk was a little over a foot in diameter. We were fortunate that there wasn’t more damage – [...]
2 weeks ago today we put the vegetables in. This is how they look today: Cucumbers Green beans Peppers, squash, lettuce, chard Squash, lettuce, tomatoes Future pepper! Future tomato! And? What would this blog be without bird photos? “Hey, guys – is this restaurant hosting a private party, or can anyone join?” Technorati Tags: Garden, [...]
