Potatoes are absolutely one of the easiest things to grow and you can plant them in just about anything. For years we grew them in a series of old garbage cans that we had drilled holes in and even in a big flower pot in our old kitchen. Then we moved on to growing […]
Wordless Wednesday: Little Gardener
Wordless Wednesday: Mason Bees Make an Appearance
We have two new bee houses in the garden this year. Neither seem to be inhabited yet but today we had our first sighting of one of these important solitary pollinators this afternoon. I think its an orchard mason bee but I’m not 100% sure. Hope to be seeing many more this season though.
Beans Glorious Beans & A Hip Girl Giveaway
This year is the year of the bean in our garden. Our soil composition and amount of sun light limits the amount of tomatoes we can grow so I’ve planted them in other gardens and am replacing two beds of tomatoes with beans. Since we’re growing so many beans we’re also building quite a few […]
How to Have a Perfect Day
Take 1 mini muffin tin add 8 types of heirloom beans and 1 bad cat and a mother with a new lens for hours of pure bliss. Hours (!) of bean sorting by Rebecca and bean chasing by Zooey. My gorgeous beans all mixed up. May Flower and Poltschka Pole Beans. I think they are sorted by […]