Red Potato

Yes, it snowed last night!  Quite unexpected, but nothing was bothered by it.  And, the rhubarb has just put its first leaves up right through it.  I love rhubarb.  It is rather sour, but cooked with sugar is just the right tartness for pancake or ice cream topping.  And cake!  My grandmother would make plain…

Saw fireflies for the first time tonight.  Their small twinkly lights are a joy to see.  Some stay low to the ground and some fly as high as our tallest tree across the road by the pasture.  Only the males have their lights to flash to entice the ladies to come up and dance.  They…

Had a whopper of a thunderstorm storm last evening.  Worst I have seen in a long while.  Put the electricity out for hours and into the night.  We have surge protectors for the fridge, freezer and computers, but the clocks show an outage of more than 2 hours.  We have emergency lighting, candles, flashlights and…

Planted beets today.  Beets like it cool and moist.  Packet says seeds 3 inches apart with rows 6 inches apart.  Save space by planting seeds 3 inches apart, in rows 6 inches apart but with an additional row in between with seeds 3 inches apart diagonally. That comes to 3 rows in a one-row garden…

Started the lettuce about 3 weeks ago in peat pots on the windowsill.  Time to set them out.  Cool and wet are the perfect time for them.

Picked the first of this year’s fruits.  Delicious!  Now every day I will pick, dehydrate for storage, sell to neighbors, or eat fresh.