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Didn’t do much in the garden today. I pruned back a peony that completely died back. Also chopped back a fuscia bush. I added these cuttings to our second compost bin. I’ve been thinking of topping off our garden beds with raked leaves. I’ve never done that before, but it may help protect the...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Oh my gosh gang, we were gifted with our first egg today! I don’t know why I makes me a little bit teary. Bless these girls. No wonder Zooey was cranky, she was probably feeling all of those uncomfortable physics feelings of moving an equivalent watermelon out of a small space. Bless this girl!

Morning all, happy day before Thanksgiving. I probably won’t be doing much in the garden today. Doing a small dinner for myself for tomorrow, and testing some new recipes. DH did a road trip to visit his dad. I stayed back since dog was waitlisted for boarding and had no chicken sitters. One of...

It’s a nice fall day here. 51 and sunshine breaks. At lunch I dumped a few buckets of leaves in the chicken run. I also pulled out our ollas from the garden beds. I usually put those in the garage for the winter. Not sure if they’d crack if we get an extended freeze, but I’d be pretty bummed if...

Yeah, I remember seeing fat-free labels on bottles of water too. They must think people are just dumb.

What kind of potatoes are you growing? Just curious because I’m also in the Pacific Northwest. Hey neighbor! :frow

Wow. I went from 8b to 9a.

I haven’t made it, but it sounds yum. I think I’m going to try to make a batch over Thanksgiving. We’ve got the Korean chili flakes in the spice cabinet. If you don’t have those, regular crushed red pepper flakes are a decent substitute, just a little spicier.

Variety is the spice of life! 😉

Yes, that’s it. Looks so pretty unwarped and all. Very easy to assemble. Although this spring we also got the “critter guards” from the same company. We had topped off the beds with some compost and our dog was sneaking bites at every opportunity. Turns out the critter guards didn’t exactly fit...

I think your pallet beds are really cute! Our 4x4s are cedar kits from HD. We got them the following spring after we moved into this house, spring 2020. Greened Fences brand I believe. So far they’ve held up ok. There’s a little bit of warping so they’re not fully flush which is kind of...

I was gifted a container of Lomi fertilizer stuff last year from a friend who had more than she could use. I think it did ok in the garden this year. Not really any complaints. But I probably wouldn’t purchase one since we have our bins. She said that it’s much larger and louder than you think...

Hahaha, yes, that’s exactly what I meant to say! 🤪. I clearly didn’t proof before I hit post. Yeah, I’m grateful for our compost pickup. I think they use the natural gas for local buses and such. I should probably look into it. But I’m very much looking forward to putting our home grown...

We added a whole mess of poopy coop pine shavings to the compost bin. We were trying to hold off on the change-out, but I think with all the rain recently we realized we needed some dry matter in there. Changed the coop bedding out today. We got about 2/3 into the compost bin 1. And scattered...

Nice! Those guys are on our project list for the spring. We decided to hold off since I read something around here about emptying them before your first frost date if you get freezes. Could be wrong. We get periodic freezes here in the PNW, so hopefully if we get out act together next spring...

I thought I recently came across an America’s test kitchen video where they reviewed a bunch of gadgets for removing corn kernels. Let me see if I can find it. I’ve always used a knife for one-offs, but for major processing that’s not really workable.

It actually never occurred to me until recently that pantries or other locations take fresh produce. I always just assumed it was more shelf stable items like canned, dried etc. This summer I was chatting with my neighbor and his wife was going to make a run to the pantry to drop off some fresh...

My FIL is like that too. He’s 86. One of the times my husband visited him, rather earlier this year or last, his father climbed a tree in his backyard to do some pruning. He sent me a picture too.

Those sound fabulous! I’m so tempted to add them to our mix for 2024.