We enjoyed a fun weekend & some lovely spring weather! There’s a reason they say “April showers bring May flowers” - the world around us is finally, really turning green again; the trees, shrubs, & flowers are blooming &, most importantly for us, our garden is coming to life! The onions we planted several weeks ago haveContinue Reading
We planted several other things on our patio this weekend & our garden is off to a good start; we’ll still have several things to fill it in with by mid-May most likely. There were the onions (red & yellow) & some herbs (oregano, thyme, & rosemary) we picked upContinue Reading
After a busy work week, we’ve had a fabulous, fun, & relaxing weekend! As I type this, the temperature is currently a glorious 67 degrees & sunny (with a high today of 79); I’m not going to talk about the fact that the high later this week will be backContinue Reading
Winter can’t stop me from attempting to garden. With the help of “the sun” and oddly quite a few days of sun this winter we’ve been able to grow limes like a mo-fo. It looks like I have successfully tricked our lime tree, Captain Sunshine, into thinking that it isContinue Reading
Happy New Year! We had a wonderful Christmas, with lots of time for relaxing, rest, & fun & we spent our New Year’s Eve celebrating with friends & had a wonderful time. These past two weeks have flown by much too fast & I’m not ready for this wonderful timeContinue Reading
We dragged ourselves out of bed early on a Saturday & headed over to Belleville to build a hoop house with a team of people (organized by Selma Cafe) for two separate farms – Stephanie & Joyce Phillips’ Family Farm & Kari Smith’s Black & Tan Farm – there yesterdayContinue Reading
We did some cleaning up in our patio garden today & I found lots of tomatillo pods that had fallen off of our hanging tomatillo plant. I thought they looked delicate & beautiful & I knew I had to snap a picture! And our friend Amy was kind of enoughContinue Reading
Behold, the fruits of our labor; harvested today, fresh from our very own garden – limes, herbs (basil, mint, & parsley), nasturtium, red onions, tomatoes, & peppers!
Ah, how far we’ve come… This is how our little garden began & this is how it looks today! We’ve really enjoyed growing our own herbs, fruits, & vegetables & Ryan has been great about keeping up the watering (which needs to be done almost daily to keep the tomatoesContinue Reading