Gardening
corn flowers!
As soon as we moved out here to Bedford and, for the first time, had yard and room for growing, I felt the need to put in a garden. It helped that it was April at the time. That first effort was a small thing, only three feet by eight if I recall, but we've expanded it every year since then and now have some considerable area under cultivation.
Of course, we've not yet had a year where the farming lives up to our hopes and expectations, but you know what they say about hope springing etc.; and so each spring finds me pouring excitedly through seed catalogues. At least at that point in the season nothing has gone wrong yet!
the most recent blog posts tagged with "farming"
farm forecast
The forecast calls for temperatures in the mid-30s overnight. Upon learning this I rushed out and picked all the mostly-ripe tomatoes and peppers in the ... [read more]
Fri, September 16th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
did I really just buy tomatoes?
We've been eating a lot of tomatoes around here lately. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner some days (alright, not many breakfasts... but I've managed at least ... [read more]
Tue, September 13th, 2011 at 9:14 pm
this is the story of a hurricane
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We're told there's a hurricane coming. We don't listen to the news so we were spared the full extent of the fear-mongering, but enough actual ... [read more]
Sat, August 27th, 2011 at 8:45 pm
vegetables
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It's summer vegetable season. I picked so much yesterday that we started up a CSA and sent half of it away in a box. We're ... [read more]
Mon, August 1st, 2011 at 8:35 pm