Tag Archives: Raised Beds

Family Work Day

Monday, March 8, 2010 – 3:34 pm

(Michael and Ivy relaxing on the deck during lunch this weekend.)
This weekend was a busy one. The weather was beautiful, really really beautiful. No housework was done but that was the intention because it was all about the yard. Last week our landlord put in a fence, which we are truly thankful for. Now we [...]

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Harvest

Sunday, October 4, 2009 – 8:27 pm

The days and nights are getting both shorter and colder. I think that these next few days will be the last safe ones for my last tomatoes outside, then I will bring the last fruits to finish ripening and ripe out the plants. After that all this Spring’s raised beds will be empty and I [...]

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New Raised Bed

Monday, August 17, 2009 – 1:13 pm

This Saturday Michael and I finished building the first of six new raised beds. I am so proud of our hard work.

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Learning As I Grow

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 – 10:54 am

I have six crops left in my raised beds right now. Tomatoes, pumpkins, green beans, ground cherries, zucchini and sunflowers (do sunflowers count? I am saving their seeds after all…) The photos above are my quickly ripening cherry romas and stupice. My tomatoes are doing so beautifully this year. They are so heavy with fruit. [...]

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Tomatoes, Raised Beds and Garlic

Friday, July 24, 2009 – 8:36 am

Seriously sometimes I feel like a cheerleader when it comes to my tomatoes. All my heirlooms are so heavy with fruit, especially my cherry romas, amish paste and stupice. And finally, it is happening, my first stupice is turning red. Of course with this wonderful development mother nature decided to test my tomato protectiveness and [...]

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