Rainy Sunday Morning
This summer has been unbelievable, more cool days than raging hot weather. Today it's a perfect, cool, rainy, Sunday morning. The rain and thunder sound like something from the nature…
Harvesting Garlic
Today we harvested our garlic - 40 heads to be exact, only hit one with the shovel! I went back to grab the link from when we planted the garlic…
Hope Springs Eternal
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”…
Fast Forward to spring at Phipps Conservatory
've been to the future and it's AMAZING I tell you! Somewhere under all the ice, snow and frigid cold weather Mother Nature is working her magic for the upcoming…
Where Do Baby Carrots Come From?
What you see are the results from our grand garden experiment this past summer, how much do you really need to thin your carrot crop. Skimp on thinning equals, lots…
Meet Roma and Juliet: Growing Tomatoes
It's our first tomato harvest of the season! We had our first tomatoes with pesto (basil from our garden) served with beets. The kids called it 'garden dinner.' If anyone…
First Harvest of 2013
Its been 25 days since we planted, now we begin feasting on spinach and mixed salad greens! From garden to table to tummy. It's awesome!
Don’t Tempt Mother Nature
This is what you get when you try to plant before May 1 in Zone 6 (find your zone)- frost warning. I went to Lowe's and to buy some Basil…
Where Food Begins – Waiting for spring
As the snowflakes and freezing rain falls here in Pittsburgh, I look ahead to Zone 6 spring planting. Here's a baby picture of our vegetable garden's beginning on May 13,…
Composting at Home
One of the features of our the house we moved into was it had a garden, albeit it needed a bit of work, but we didn't mind! A few months…