Posted in Food, Vegetable Garden

Heirloom Tomatoes: When is enough?

I love great, home grown heirloom tomatoes, don’t you? There is nothing like the flavor of a great ‘Big Rainbow’ or ‘Mortgage Lifter’ tomato, still warm from the sun. Those are just two of the varieties I planted this year of a total of 10 different varieties, 14 plants in all. I grew nine of the varieties from seed, right in our own basement. I picked up the other one at a farmer’s market, I liked the name: ‘Stump of the World’. read more

Posted in In the House, Life, Vegetable Garden

August Morning on the Farm~ working on the honey do list

It’s a fine August morning here on the farm. I just watered the flowers and harvested the day’s vegetables. Soon, I will need to start freezing, canning and pickling for winter eating. Before getting busy again, I thought I should post an update on what has been happening. read more

Posted in Orchard, Vegetable Garden, Wildlife

Wild Turkeys

Happy Spring!

I suspect that this calendar year will be filled with ‘firsts’ for us. This week it was our first sightings of Wild Turkeys right on our own place. Last Tuesday I saw them across the farm field, a flock of hens followed by a strutting Tom Turkey- too far away to photograph, just near enough to tell what they were. read more

Posted in Landscape, Vegetable Garden

We’re so excited, we wet our plants.

So, we bought this place way last summer- last July 15th to be exact. We closed in August, but allowed the previous owners to stay until their new home was ready to move in. We moved a bunch of stuff out of our condo, including much of the landscaping and then staged that to sell quickly (in just 8 days!). In the mean time, the new place needed cleaning and painting before we could move in, so we set to work on that. read more