The high tunnel is full of green tomatoes. Ripe red tomatoes are ready daily, and they will be for another six weeks. By late October the quality of the texture and taste will diminish. Eventually I’ll force green tomatoes to ripen, and those that don’t submit to red will be…
It started on Monday. My 40-50 hour work week…it started on Monday. Unfortunately I didn’t get my shower, dressed and mascara on bright and early because I expected a desk day. A future customer called from a mile away. It’s {this close} to opening but not ready yet. “If you…
The rooster was four minutes late this morning, and he sounded tired. As he was waking up I was going back to sleep. Up at 2:30 am, resisting the urge to make coffee, I wrote a little, read a while, and decided at 4 am that I should try to…
European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), also known as common starlings, are an interesting disaster. Like many, I have a love/hate relationship with this non-native species. They remind me of beavers. They can cause a lot of damage, but I admire their abilities. Starlings were imported to North America by Eugene Schieffelin.…
ahhhhhhh Summer…but wow did it get very hot all of a sudden. I’m loving the 50° nights while we have them because the house cools down (we don’t have AC) nicely. Tuesday’s predicted high is 95°. I will not be cooking. I’ll be making this Fresh Fruit Salad with Honey…
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This is an unusual year for high tunnel growing. It’s hot now and then, unusually cool and raining the next. We have more cool wet days than hot and dry. The tunnel is full but outside, only bush beans that aren’t doing well, pumpkins and squash. We don’t have enough…
I return to Pyramid Life Center in Paradox, NY for the Women’s Writing Retreat every July. It’s a place to rest, catch up with friends I see once a year, meet new people, make new friends, and get a lot of writing done (or little writing at all). I wrote…
On my way to the high tunnel, garden cart full of plant material destined for a compost bin I haven’t yet built, I looked into the food plot. She has twins. We’ve seen them together but not in the food plot yet. Early Friday morning a cow moose strolled through…
I needed an easy place to hang a bundle of lavender to dry. This worked so well I used it for chocolate mint, too. This is a five point whitetail deer antler I found in the woods while hunting. It’s the only shed I’ve ever found. It’s very handy.
