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We both love figs. I love them fresh, in jams, fig preserves, freeze dried . . I can’t think of any way I wouldn’t love figs. My grandma had a huge fig tree. I was a child but I could walk up under the branches that touched the ground and sit under the tree and...

I understand that no everyone has a desire to garden, and there’s nothing wrong with that. I don’t think I’ve told this story on here before but I’ve thought about it so maybe I have. On our way to town, there’s a mobile home part and the mobile homes are pretty close and there isn’t...

We planted four or five chokecherries either in late 2021 or early 2022 and this is the first year they’ve bloomed. I’m so happy to see them blooming. If they produce enough “cherries”, I’ll make chokecherry jam. We have three lilacs that we planted and they’re small but look like they will have lots of...

The sweet potatoes are making so many slips! This evening I’m going to cut the potatoes so I can submerge the tops in water and get all those slips to root and hopefully get a good count on how many plants I’ll end up with. I will probably get about 6 potatoes from each slip....

Yesterday I was out working in the garden and took a few pictures to share. I have seven 4′ x 8′ raised beds and four 4′ x 4′ raised beds. The garlic is doing so good this year. Even though we’ve had some cold weather, we’ve had a very early and very warm spring so...

This is Vince’s old pickup . . with the windshield safely protected from any big hail that might have fallen last night. Glad you aren’t my neighbor?

We could have severe storms on Monday – mostly late in the day. Vince looked at the weather map and said “It’s a big area that has a chance of storms. What are the chances of it hitting here?” I said “I don’t know but I’m going to be ready just in case.” I picked...

In November, 2020 I started growing microgreens. It’s been hit or miss – mostly because I didn’t have a great place to do it. The sun room works great when the weather is mild. In the summer, it’s too hot. In the winter it’s too cold. I can also use the greenhouse at certain times...

Yesterday morning Vince was willing to help me in the garden so I jumped on that. He doesn’t enjoy gardening and has other things he’d rather be doing. You may remember that when Chad was in college and he was home for the weekend, I had asked him to do a few things for me...

This seems too good to be true so . . you know I’m apprehensive but I’m going to share it anyway, simply because I am so desperate to get rid of squash bugs. In this video, the guy talks about using Jerusalem artichokes to make a liquid “pesticide”. Again, I can’t say that it works...

This afternoon I worked in the greenhouse and I think I planted the last of the seeds I wanted to start. I either don’t have or can’t find my green bell pepper seeds that I saved from last year so I’ll buy a couple of bell pepper plants from the nursery. Last year I put...

Here’s a funny story about cherry trees. Before we moved to Kentucky, I had always canned but mostly it was green beans, tomatoes, corn, potatoes – just the typical garden produce and that was when I lived in Louisiana. My grandma had peach and pear trees but she always made the jam and preserves for...

Look at all the blooms on the plum tree! It’s terribly windy out there and I couldn’t get a great picture but that little tree is loaded. There’s still plenty of time for a freeze that could ruin everything but for a tree that’s been in the ground two years, I’m happy. There’s another plum...

I’m so predictable. Every year in late summer or early fall, I tell myself I’m not having a garden next year. It’s not that it’s a terrible amount of work, though it is, but after a hot, dry summer like we had last year when I had to water every day since so much is...

This morning I was looking for something on the blog and came across this picture from 2014. I do miss the big garden but it was a compromise . . I had to give up the big garden, chickens and the orchard for Vince to agree to move back to MO. We do have a...

As excited as I am about gardening, Mother Nature is probably laughing at all of us with our little seed packets waiting to be planted. With so many plants, there are low temps at which they will die and there are high temps at which they will either stop producing or their production will greatly...

Someone please stop us from buying more trees. We are totally out of space! Vince wanted pear trees . . fine, I got the peach and plums I wanted but I would love a cherry tree or two but that’s not happening. Vince has been looking for a pear tree as the stores are getting...

When we got Oscar about two years ago, we had to puppy proof everything. We used a puppy gate to keep him off the stairs and we had a “fence” that we used to block off one end of a hallway to keep Oscar confined to the living room. It’s hard to describe but some...

Please don’t judge! I am NOT one of those people who buys stuff, decides I don’t like it soon after purchasing and replaces it with something new and expensive. My car is 17 years old. The furniture in two bedrooms in this house, as well as the dining room, is furniture the sellers of the...

This morning we awoke to a winder winderland. The weather had been so “it’s going to snow a lot/it isn’t going to snow much at all Sunday”. We have a great weatherman and he kept apologizing for the back and forth on the forecast. At first, he said we were going to get 3 –...