By Patricia Zick @PCZick We may have started the garden late this year, but somehow the cold April mixed with a few hot days and then spurts of rain in May created a monster garden in June. A friend visited in the last days of May, and we’d sit on the balcony overlooking the gardenContinue reading “Garden Gone Wild”
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From Seed to Table
By Patricia Zick @PCZick From Seed to Table – A Personal Guide to Growing, Harvesting, Cooking, and Preserving Food is now available on Kindle through Amazon. I’m still trying to decide if I’ll do a hard copy of the book – I use lots of photos with the information. Here’s an excerpt on preparing theContinue reading “From Seed to Table”
Garden Odds and Ends
By Patricia Zick @PCZick It’s been a long winter, which makes us all the more appreciative of all the signs of spring. These daffodils came out last week, and then were beaten down by a ferocious rainstorm within the first day of blooming. But with a little sun and some warmer temps, they rebounded inContinue reading “Garden Odds and Ends”
Finally – the Garden Grows
By Patricia Zick @PCZick Robert worked outside from early morning until the light faded from the yard over the weekend. Each night, he came inside with hands covered in dirt and a bent back after hours of leaning. But the smile on his face told me the physical hardships did nothing to dampen the sheerContinue reading “Finally – the Garden Grows”
Spring(?) Garden Update
By Patricia Zick @PCZick Spring sprung more than ten days ago, yet we’re stymied by cold temperatures. Seeds sprouted a month ago are now seedlings growing under lights in our family room. But I can tell they are yearning, as we are, for the warmer days and nights of spring, for the sunshine to heatContinue reading “Spring(?) Garden Update”
To Everything There is a season
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 By Patricia Zick @PCZick And so it is with gardening. The winter season of gardening is a time of planning, considering, and enjoying the bounty of the previous seasons. Almost every night we’re eating something from the freezerContinue reading “To Everything There is a season”
In the Garden July
By P.C. Zick @PCZick It’s beginning to look a lot like summer and the living is not quite as easy as you might think! Despite our lack of rain, the garden is still doing its thing. We’re watering about twice a week and hoping for the best. Here’s a glimpse for today, July 7.Who’s thatContinue reading “In the Garden July”
Garden Update
By P.C. Zick @PCZick and Facebook The garden is really growing fast now despite our lack of rain. But nature provides and right after I came back inside to post these photos the rain started – our first in two weeks. It gently laps at my window pane as I type. Last night, we grilledContinue reading “Garden Update”
An Almost All Homegrown Dinner!
By P.C. Zick – @PCZick Last night we managed to eat a meal, mostly provided by our garden, with a table graced with flowers from plants and herbs gone to seed, along with a very few wild irises growing at the edge of the woods in our backyard.The tall purple flowers are radishes; the longContinue reading “An Almost All Homegrown Dinner!”
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