Garden Methods
Some People Skip Out
Just thought I toss this out there for you, Dear Reader this morning’s coffee cup holder. Not that we are so hooked on our brand names here at Vicktory Farm & Gardens but I do like a good cuppa coffee and Dirt likes a nice ride. Speaking of nice rides…. I ought to keep track … Continue reading
Soakin’ and Stripin’
SoaksOkay, so I totally forgot to put my pea seeds, sweet and garden, to soak last night. They will soak overnight tonight here on the breakfast bar then tomorrow I will put inoculant on them. The garden (eating) peas will go straight in the ground and the sweet (flower) peas will go in peat pots … Continue reading
Tuesday or Is It Wednesday or Does It Really Matter
By the way, the peach trees: Frost and Harken. And if this is winter, who cares if there is going to be six more weeks of it. (PNW speaking wise that is.) Spring can be nasty scary weather, I think I’d rather do winter at this rate. So I have a problem.You know, if you … Continue reading
Farm Tours Restart
Welcome back for more tour of Vicktory Farm & Gardens! Didn’t mean to let nearly a year go by. Today we will be strolling in the Barn Garden and talking water and weather, hope you wore your boots. Anna could run to the kitchen and get some bread sacks to go over your shoes but … Continue reading
Clearing the Air
Come hither little tree!.Dirt has decided that I need a hot house sooner than later, later would be the case if we were to wait on doing an attached one to the house. So he has cleared the trees that block the perfect location for a hothouse, market shed combo building. Cleared the southern sky … Continue reading
Getting Around to Stuff, Some, Twenty Years in the Making
Check it out, I finally changed up my banner picture, made it a little more seasonal. I usually get that changed more regularly but I haven’t been doing much “regularly”, I still have tulips on my lap top screen. I like change, I feed on change, but this last year was so chalk a block … Continue reading
Done
The Garlic is in. Thanks to my hard workin‘ girls we gotter done. Poor Dirt came out to try and help and he wiped out, lost air and couldn’t stick with us. Poor Chippy Hacky. Any way, all the garlic is in but for some reason the count I gave you yesterday was off, oh … Continue reading
Pink Fussy Fuzzy Grows On You and the Garlic is Just Plain Gonna Grow
When I wrote out the title I meant to just write “pink fuzzy grows on you.” But instead of fuzzy I wrote fussy, when I realized my mistake I decided to keep fussy and just add fuzzy because it is very fussy. .Kathy, you like eye lash yarn because you are a weaver. Knitting with … Continue reading
My Head is Spinning, I Can Not Type
Nearly ninety today and lotsa moisture. Up at five and out in the sun from nine to three thirty. Wished I had got going out of the house a little earlier, I can’t even remember what I dilli-dallied over. Feeling sorta queasy this evening. But I got lots done and big day tomorrow taking cuttings, … Continue reading
Some of My Favorite Recipes
Last Monday and Tuesday it was raining slugs. That’s where they come from you know, they come in the rain. With the lush foliage and the ponds in every part of the Farm I have no shortage of slugs, so I will be very wealthy when they finally discover that slug slime cures seventy-six point … Continue reading
