The 400+ bulbs we planted in the fruit
Enjoy the photos, taken yesterday before last night’s amazing and scary thunderstorms. The fruit trees are still small and caged in chicken wire to keep deer from nibbling.
[…] awake and blooming. There’s nothing I love quite so much as daffodils, and I have them planted throughout the orchard as well as in my flower garden. The daffodil above is in my flower garden, the perennial garden […]
If you’re thinking about building a vegetable garden this year, raised beds are one of the best ways I know of to start a vegetable garden. Instead of renting a rototiller or hand-digging the soil, adding amendments and turning it all under to create a good garden bed, you start with the best soil mixture…
I’ve put together this henbit plant profile to spotlight a lovely plant – which many gardeners consider a weed. Weed or flower? To me, it’s a matter of perspective. Every spring, at least one of my raised beds is covered in a thick mat of henbit. Henbit is both lovely and practical despite being labeled…
I wrote this Ultime Guide to Growing Beets to share my techniques for growing tasty, organic beets. Beets are a powerhouse of nutrition. Both the beetroot and the leaves and stems are edible. You can also can beets and beet greens to store them for year-round use. Here, I share with you a full guide…
Even though it’s cold and snowy out, winter homesteading projects beckon. As I write this, snow is falling in sheets outside my office windows, covering the orchard trees with a blanket of white. Last week, an ice storm knocked power out for 36 hours – and knocked pines down every which way. We had poles…
400 bulbs?… thats massive by the standard of our little vegetable garden. To live in a sea of daffodils is a VACATION! ~bangchik
A lovely sight heralding spring!
The field where we planted them is half an acre – huge – they look like islands of yellow in a sea of green grass…and yes Bangchik; their beauty is indeed like a vacation!