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Backyard Garden Plot Pictures – Week 49 of 52 Sometimes it’s so cold, just thinking about walking outside to take a few photos of your garden will send a shiver down your spine. I went outside over an hour ago to take these photos and I am still cold! And my house is 70 degrees Read More >>
Backyard Garden Plot Pictures – Week 48 of 52 It’s hard to believe it’s December and our backyard garden is still alive and kicking. The fava beans we planted this past fall are doing great. We also have carrots, beets, Swiss chard, kale garlic, leeks and turnips growing in the garden boxes. I know it Read More >>
After digging up a few vegetables for our Thanksgiving dinner this past week, I did a little bartering with my neighbor Hulda. Being able to share/trade our extra vegetables with our neighbors is pretty RAD. She had meat, I have veggies, so it was a win-win deal. Now, if we could just get a few of Read More >>
Backyard Garden Plot Pictures – Week 47 of 52 The strawberry plants we have growing in the wood pallets are still alive and kicking. 🙂 As you can wee, the ones we grew last year in the pallets are nice and green while the ones we transplanted still look like little twigs and are hard Read More >>
This morning when Lucy the Puggle Dog and I went outside to fed the chickens, we discovered the whole backyard was covered in frost. Lucy loved licking the frost off the garden boxes and barking at the grass. 😉 What a nut! It was so chilly outside I decided to make the chickens some warm Read More >>
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