Last year we had a meager picking of strawberries, but this year has been the best year ever. To our delight, the strawberries are back, better than ever. Two springs ago, I moved the strawberry patch. The process of digging and disturbing the soil necessary to move the strawberry plants, also sent an invitation to all the sleeping weed seeds in the soil to awaken … Continue reading Bringing the Strawberries Back
A week and a half after planting the sprouted seeds, there is rapid growth happening. Stems are stretching and two little seed leaves are beginning to unfurl. If it appears that the tomato seeds were defective because the leaves don’t look like the tomato leaves usually on garden tomatoes, no worries. Those leaves are yet to come. These are the seed leaves that feed the … Continue reading Stretching for the Light
OK. Things are a bit ugly here. This certainly isn’t the pretty picture that will win me any blog awards. But to show you only the pretty pictures, isn’t real life. To portray only the beautiful, misses the true and the good. It leaves out the messy, sometimes ugly part of beginning growth. If things are looking slimy and moldy, that doesn’t mean its time … Continue reading Alive, When we Least Expect It
Not even a week has passed since we began this year’s garden by ‘bagging up’ the little seeds. They are now doing their part – sprouting. What will become of these little seeds? There is a foot of snow outside with more coming tomorrow. The temperatures will struggle to reach 15 degrees this week. The outside world is a hostile place for this baby tomato. … Continue reading Grow in Faith
Outside there are drifts up to my waist in the wake of the weekend blizzard. The temperature is a balmy 7 degrees. The North wind doth blow…. time to start the garden! Of course. Today was seed starting day. This is what we did for Nature Studies. I usually start thinking about starting seeds on Valentines Day. But for our area that really is too … Continue reading Beginning
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