I’ve made smoothies. I’ve made milkshakes. I’ve made two cheesecakes. I’ve frozen them. I’ve given some away. I’ve had people come pick. I’ve made fresh raspberry salsa. Today I made raspberry jam. Tomorrow I have plans to can raspberry salsa. And then I’m just going to keep freezing them unless I try fruit leather in…
Category: Garden
Cat Cage
I spent time setting out some new flowers today. Hopefully, no snow or frost is in our future. I have these four large pots at my “front” door, which, technically, is the back door… anyhoo… I’ve been fighting my cats for possession of these pots. They seem to believe that they are their afternoon sunning…
Hugelkultur Review
When I posted my last Throwback Thursday post about my hugelkultur bed, I knew people would want an update. Here it is! Hugelkultur is raised bed gardening without a structure to hold it and a large amount of wood debris as its base. Biomass is added, building up the mound, sometimes building it into a…
Throwback Thursday: Hugelkultur Zwei, v.2.0
This was first published September 5, 2014. Long ago… well, in May of 2013, I started building my hugelkultur bed. It was a simple test and I didn’t get too carried away just because if it failed, I didn’t want too big of a mess to clean up! Well… my opinion now is… It’s a success!…
Testing, Testing
My sister makes many food items from her garden produce. She makes mead and wine and salsa and frozen vegetables. She dehydrates. She cans. She makes fruit leather and jelly. I think most of all though, she loves to ferment food. I had to taste fermented salsa last time I visited! Today I joined in…
Why Do I Garden in Wyoming?
There’s a smell to it… a smidge of ozone from the lightning, an icy coldness, a mown grass scent multiplied with different leaf and stem scents, wet earth, and muddy water. This morning was spent finishing a new flower bed and planting some last few tomatoes. This is the before photo. Note the gorgeous basket…
Garden Walk
The sweet ladies from The First Church of the Nazarene continue to do the Jerri Burton Memorial Garden Walk in my mom’s honor. It’s very small, usually two or three gardens, and it’s not really advertised, usually attended only by members of the church. Well, July 9th was my mother’s birthday, and the garden walk…
Gardening in Wyoming
Well, I had held off planting my tomatoes for quite a while… we’d had a few cold mornings later than usual, but I finally planted them. Here it is… two weeks later or so… and, son of a gun, it froze the other morning. The stems don’t really seem to be frozen, just the leaves……
Kickstart
Wyoming meteorologists agree that a big storm is on the way… bringing snow above 8000’ and rain to the rest of us. I rushed to get the majority of my garden seeds in the ground. I’ll hold off on the tomatoes and peppers until the snow is gone! The hardest part was my Ruth Stout…
Soil
Tonight I attended a soils class put on by our local agriculture educator, Caitlyn. Always full of stories and advice, Caitlyn is a great knowledge base for our county and state. We tested our own soil and learned or refreshed our memories and knowledge. I looked it up here in my archived blog posts and…
Dirt Memories
We’ve had a few gloomy, slightly rainy days. It seems like we should have received more rain, everything is green and growing and just bursting. There was just enough of a break between storms that I finished rototilling my garden. I may have to do it one more time, but with the evening lows in…
Cold Frame
Oh, spring fever has me in its grip! Unfortunately, next week is supposed to be cold and snowy… I couldn’t help it, I had Brandon help me get my cold frame out of the garage. I’m probably a month early on this, but hey, you might as well see what happens! I’ve set it out…