Garden
My Greenhouse! Full of Hope & Magic!
Greenhouses are places filled with hope and touched with magic. On a cold, snowy February day, walking into my greenhouse is like waking into spring. Filling flats with my own potting soil, placing seeds into that lovely soil, adding a label, and watering everything...
It’s Strawberry Season!
My strawberry beds are loaded with strawberries! Some of my grandkids and I enjoyed a hearty snack walking through the garden this morning. I taught them to pull the leaves back and find treasure! And I have a brand new recipe, from a sweet family member, that has...
Make This if Your Garden is Winding Down!
The weather has turned a bit here in Tennessee. The Summer Garden is winding down and it's time to start pulling spent plants and plants we just don't want anymore (can anyone say zucchini?) and begin planting for a fall garden. Think, greens, brassicas, lettuce. We...
Garden Bed Building
I will write in detail soon about our attempt at gardening differently this year soon. Our garden was being consumed by Bermuda Grass and we haven't found a natural way to combat that. If you know one please share! We never used to have Bermuda grass - it just...
Need some gardening help?
When we moved to the farm I knew nothing about gardening. I mean nothing! I didn't know that there were cool season crops and warm season crops. I thought you went out one day, put all the seeds in the ground and waited for the bounty to begin! I bought some books and...
Miss me? In the last 10 days….
There has been a lot of ditch digging happening in the garden area. Full garden post coming soon! We're trying something new after 20 years of gardening in raised beds and I'm excited to share it with you. This happened in the greenhouse - natural pest control at...
Mixing Potting Soil – My Personal Recipe!
This morning we mixed potting soil. Two of my sons live here on the farm and we worked together this morning to fill a container for the greenhouse. I'm going to share the process and the recipe - it's so much cheaper than buying it and you know everything that's in...
Greenhouse Disaster! The Good, The Bad & The Ugly!
True confession time! My life has been a bit crazy and stressful for the last few years and growing a garden was just not part of the plan. Sometimes we have to pivot and change when life throws us curveballs don't we? I haven't liked the idea of being unprepared...
The Greenhouse Project
The first project The Farmer chose to work on was my greenhouse. For several years before I met The Farmer, I took care of special needs foster children. The gardens and my greenhouse were sorely neglected. I'm talking really neglected....like there was a tree...
Reclaiming the garden!
This summer we have been slowly reclaiming our garden one bed at a time. For two years it was sadly neglected while we cared for two young special-needs foster boys. We literally planted a garden one spring and then didn't step back into it until those boys left our...