Garden Dreaming
It’s a beautiful day in Chestertown: sunny, light breeze. It’s an inkling of hope that warm weather will soon be here, and sundresses, hats, and bare feet will be my clothing of choice. It also reminds me that garden planting …
Tag: gardening
Hello, bella!
Each morning, I walk around my vegetable garden to say hello to all of my plants. I think they like the encouragement. Today, I found a real treat. My very first tomato! Isn’t it beautiful? Bear with me bellas, this …
New hat
I didn’t mean to buy a hat today. It found me. I was at the local True Value store picking up a few essentials for the garden, and this hat fell off the rack near the register as I walked …
Backyard Homestead
After spending a long time developing a plan for our Backyard Homestead, we started putting some of the pieces together. First, I wanted to transplant the seedlings I’d nursed from seeds into our backyard. After reading about vegetable gardening, I …
Fruit Forest Part I
Another piece of our backyard homestead includes a nut and fruit tree forest. We went a little crazy with this dream… Here are some of the trees we’ve added: Melrose apple treesA peach treeTwo pear treesA fig tree A black …