Ok, the green beans are going crazy. Funny how it can look like there’s not much going on, and then all of a sudden there are SO MANY BEANS…..and they just keep coming! It’s gratifying to finally have a really good bean year, after several mediocre years. Part of the reason for our relative success […]
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A Boatload of Beans
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Finally got the garden mulched!
Well, considering all the urgency I felt around needing to collect the eelgrass, it has taken me way too long actually get it onto the garden. I suppose it would have been relatively quick and easy to get it on there if the garden had actually been weeded already, but this was definitely NOT the […]
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Collecting Eelgrass
Yesterday, the boys and I met my dad at the beach to collect our favorite mulch for the garden–eelgrass. Eelgrass looks like seaweed, though technically it’s a flowering plant that grows in estuaries or shallow, marshy, tidal areas along coast. It often washes up on beaches, collecting in piles around the high tide line. […]
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Seedlings Growing
Earlier today I glanced into the sun porch and saw Connor there, quietly watching the seedlings. What a lovely thing to see our very active little boy being still and silently observing–even if just for a moment. I guess I’m not the only one thinking a lot about our tiny plants as they break through […]
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Planting the seedlings
Now that we have our potting soil ready, we can finally get our seedlings going. Yesterday was a gorgeous, sunny day, and the boys and I set ourselves up in the back yard to do some planting. I usually start some seedlings, but this year I’m planning to grow more from seed than I have […]
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Need Potting Soil? Make Your Own!
Last weekend was definitely a rainy weekend, but at this time of year we just don’t have the luxury of waiting out the weather. If we’re going to get our gardens planted on time, we need to get our seedlings going–pretty much right now. So, after our fiddleheading adventure, we went to work on our […]
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