My first try at canning blueberry jam.. I think it set up nicely..only time will tell. And summer finally begins with basil for pesto making, squash starting to come on, and the tomatoes not too far behind, I hope. We still have a huge lettuce and salad mix bed feeding us and friends going strong, […]
They live here:
Been a busy spring, just starting to get the veggie garden going: The sedum is happy this time of year. Russel got this shot of a Redwood Moth. We went to a birthday party .. here we are in April 2012. Seems like I never have the time and energy to work on my sites, […]
The garden is in full harvest mode, so what energy I have is going there. Haven’t had time to work this site theme or any other Word Press projects right now. We did harvest many of our tomatoes: And we canned up 7 pints. We used the cold pack – 60 min water bath method. […]
Today I went out to pick some dill head and leaf.. and found a least seven black swallowtail caterpillars on my dill plant! Guess they love dill, and I am mostly done with it so they can eat it. I hope they form their chrysalis close by so I can watch that transformation. Next year […]
The garden is doing much better now that some heat has finally come on. We started harvesting butterstick summer squash and black beauty zucchini last week. With tons more to come on. We also have planted light green Lebanese squash, some globe zucchini and a few others, I am sure Russel will be tired of […]
As I talked about ( in this post ) I have, for lack of a better way to describe it, been sick for going on 7 weeks now. We also had a cold and wet spring, which made the sugar snap peas very happy.. and me too. This doesn’t look like it, but every other […]
May & June in the Garden