Each season as flowers bloom I remember which kind friend shared them from her garden. Right now I have two from my friend Lesa from at least twenty five years ago. One is a bicolor and the other is a beautiful lavender This one is from Janette. So, in addition to beautiful flowers, I have deep gratitude and beautiful memories
One of the annual tasks here is putting up the pea fence. Peas are a relatively short season crop. Their production varies with weather. Too warm and they simply give up. So putting up that pea fence is an act of faith I have ordered several different varieties over the years. I keep hoping there is one that really doesn’t need a fence. In my over twenty years of picking, I can emphatically …
I love strawberries. We grow strawberries, but are limited by several factors such as time and space requirements, my physical condition, price, and uncertainty of production. What do I mean? Strawberries take space that could grow crops with significantly more production and less labor. Ken plants them, weeds strawberries several times, composts, pulls out some of the runner plants, transplants, and maintains the crop over multiple seasons. Imagine transplanting cabbage or broccoli, weeding once and …
