As any regular reader might guess, growing fruits and vegetables and herbs tend to be my forte. Now that we raise honeybees I do my best to add extra bits of color with hanging baskets. Most of these are filled with plants that attract pollinators so I have constant pollination for all of our plants. Unfortunately, we live in an area nowadays where many people spray for mosquitoes. This can
Have you ever wondered just how we grow things up here in Interior Alaska? Many think it’s always cold but believe it or not we DO get into the 80’s, 90’s and sometimes even 100’s in mid-summer. Our challenge actually is extending our season simply because our growing season does not start “officially” until June 1st and it ends on August 31st. If you have ever grown much, you’ll know
Ever since we lived in Maryland, in that small military house, with the small yard, that started out as a smelly, gooey mess we knew we wanted something. Something. But we just couldn’t quite figure out just what that SOMETHING was. We knew when we were getting closer because things just seemed to, amazingly, always work out. Always when we moved towards certain ideas and feelings. We knew we had
This weekend my husband and I watched MasterChef. The thing that I found most amusing and unusual was that a good portion of the aspiring chefs when asked what was their motivation to learn how to cook like they do answered “because I ate crap growing up and I’m tired of eating crap” Same here. Nothing against my Mom, I love her dearly, but as a child I was reared
You know, I was talking to my husband about this recently. When I was a child we always used to plant things when Dad was home from the ship. Not much. A rather simple summer garden in Southern Maryland. It was always when he was home though, never when he was out to sea. The garden we did have when he was gone consisted of the most lovely Peonies. I
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