Category Archives: My home garden

Flower Power, Just Pictures, My home garden, Quick & Easy Recipes

Friday Flowers. Sugar Snap Pea Blossoms & Snap Pea Stir Fry

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Happy Friday!

In the garden this week my focus continued on winter pruning.  I moved up to my veggie patch to prune my rose bushes and to see how my veggies were doing, and boy was I surprised to see them thriving.  Here is a look at my veggie patch with its pea shoots, green peas, and super greens. Continue reading Friday Flowers. Sugar Snap Pea Blossoms & Snap Pea Stir Fry →

Just Pictures, My home garden, Stories From Our Home

Friday Fall Leaves

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Today I would like to share these photos I took of our poplar and maple trees. I feel like this fall our trees are especially vibrant yellow in color, maybe they were this bright and gorgeous last year too, but somehow they just seem even more beautiful this year especially with the backdrop of crisp blue skies.  In fact, I feel the camera didn’t do justice to how stunning these trees are looking right now. Happy Friday to you all! Continue reading Friday Fall Leaves →

Just Pictures, My home garden, Stories From Our Home, Vegetable Gardening

Friday Flowers. Mint Blossoms

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Oh how I love mint. I don’t know why I love this humble herb so much.  Is it the fresh scent that exudes from every leaf making me feel happy instantly?  Is it that it is so easy to grow that even a novice gardener can grow it? Or is it that it grows so easily and prolifically that if allowed it could take over any garden patch covering it in swaths of green. Or is it that whenever I am working in the garden and happen to rub against a mint leaf I get a whiff of sweet fragrance making me forget the cares of the world, if only for an instant. I love mint so much that I even wrote an ode to mint.  I just love mint. Continue reading Friday Flowers. Mint Blossoms →

My home garden, Vegetable Gardening, Wanderlust California

Summer’s End and Fall Planting in our Veggie Patch

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Summer’s End 
by Thaddeus from Farmfreshtoyou.com

It’s evening after the heat of summer afternoon, and I am walking down the dusty gravel road that curves along the canal through the farm.
Beyond the canal our first planting of heirloom tomatoes has been disasembled.
The vines once supported by stakes and string that tower over six feet tall now lie on their sides in awkward lumps.
In the fallen tomatoes, I see a coyote who already sees me. We look at each other, both wondering what the other will do until we both keep going about our evening activities mindful that the other is still there.
Soon this field will be chopped and planted over to cover the crop and these tomato vines will be remembered only on my spreadsheet that tracks history by fields. Continue reading Summer’s End and Fall Planting in our Veggie Patch →