knittingprose | January 21, 2011
It’s snowing like mad today but I’m inside thinking about seeds. I’ve spent the last hour pouring over my Baker Creek catalog and paring down the list for this year’s plantings. It’s always so difficult to not go overboard. They have such wonderful heirloom varieties to choose from. After looking over the results of last [...]
knittingprose | July 8, 2010
Sweet corn! I love sweet corn. In fact, my husband calls me Sweet Corn as a pet name. (I don’t know. He’s odd.) There are certain foods that drum up warm fuzzy feelings of being a kid and enjoying dirt and sun and everything that makes summer magical. Every time I bite into a juicy [...]
knittingprose | June 29, 2010
Well, it’s official. We have cucumbers! : ) My favorite two things of summer – fresh homegrown cucumbers and tomatoes. I really think I could live on them. The kids and I picked about 4 the other day when we were out watering the garden and there were quite a few that looked like they’d [...]
knittingprose | June 21, 2010
The first day of summer and it’s already well into the 90’s here. Everything in the garden is green and huge. The cucumbers have just about taken over everything. The tomato plants are getting taller than me and the potatoes are in desperate need of more covering. Believe it or not the lettuce is still [...]
