Bye Bye Baby

It was time...it had been looking at me for 2 weeks now...I had been admiring it from afar, but to all good pumpkins come their f…

Successes and failures

I think there is a tendency in blogland to only share our victories and our good news. But behind the scenes there are other hard…

A garden feast

We went away for the weekend to a little cabin on the beach to celebrate my 40th birthday...it was a time of reading, walks, beac…

Eating local...

I try to plan one meal completely from our garden once a week, more if our plants are yielding lots! Tonight we had this to work …

Down ~ but not defeated!

I put up a good fight, I really did. My opponent was greater than me and worked at night too! Today I finally gave up and pulled …

A hammock for my pumpkin

These are lazy days compared to what has been over the last few months. The sun beats down, I water, I help climbers to find the …

It makes it all worthwhile!

As my post below talk about harvesting all the gems from my mildew infected plants I thought I needed a good news story for my re…

Mildew - aaargh

About a week ago I noticed that some of my squash plants had the white telltale spots of milddew. I started spraying them with co…