June 2008

Thought I would post while I still can … I am now 38 weeks (as of tomorow) pregnant - and my ability to bend has vanished. My beets are almost ready, and there has been consistent cold weather here in Utah (where are you summer??) which means that my spring plants are still doing good. Am glad I don’t have to worry about [click to continue...]

My first house had a little patch of dirt by the deck out back where I attempted, almost a year after moving in, to start a garden. I had big plans. First I tried to start seedlings in the sunny windowed atrium of that funny house, where I promptly forgot to water them and they all died. In desperation, sometime when it was “warm enough” (what was frost anyway?) I ran to lowe’s and bought [click to continue...]

Yesterday I found one of my strawberry plant’s had died and my spinach has not grown - and it is now (finally) getting too hot for them to do good anyway - so I will probably just pull them up and put something else in.

My beets were doing good - until I became too focused on checking my strawberry plants and turned to see my 2 year old had pulled most of them up. She gave me her intent “I am a good helper!” look and what could I do? Seconds before she had been gently patting the dirt down around some very established strawberry plants. I have to admit I don’t appreciate this sort of help but it still was cute.

She also likes eating strawberries - including green [click to continue...]