This is a nice interview with plant breeder Dr. John Navazio, which spawned some thoughts about seeds, saving seeds, and propagating plants that do well in your garden.
If you’re a relatively new gardener (and even if you’ve been doing this a while), this time of year you’re being inundated with seed catalogs. How do you [...]
I finally got around to taking pictures and wanted to show what I had been working on all this time (click on the pictures to expand):
This is the yarn I made during that spinning marathon several months ago. I finally got it washed and measured and skeined.
The salmon is from hand-painted merino/mohair roving [...]
We’ve had a run-in with the flu here (unusual for us), but everyone seems to be on the mend.
I’m still shaking my head at the hype about all this. So far this has got to be the mildest flu season as far as deaths in history (perhaps 4000 overall so far compared to the “normal” [...]
Gas prices are going up again, and it looks like that small spike in crude oil production back in 2008 is still holding as the peak of global oil production. (the little star on the black line of reality is what I’m referring to in all that speculation) Are we at the top of the [...]
Take a look at this four-part (actually set up as six short videos) video series by Eric Toensmeier, author of Perennial Vegetables: From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, A Gardener’s Guide to Over 100 Delicious and Easy to Grow Edibles (which I just happen to have at home). Seeing what can be done in urban Massachusetts, [...]
Between two kids in marching band and getting the garden (and rabbits) ready for winter, it’s been busy here.
This is our first year with the whole marching band thing, but it’s been a lot of fun, not to mention getting to know all the other parents and their children (or should I say, young men [...]
The Oklahoma Wildlife Expo 2009 is over at the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie this weekend. I’ll be heading out there in a bit.
Presented by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and a coalition of conservation organizations, agencies and sponsors, Expo celebrates our great state’s natural diversity and opportunities for the sporting enthusiast. From [...]
A woman who has made her own wedding dress … from wool from her own sheep!
The groom’s vest was woven from the same wool also.
This is so beautiful; I love it!
Hi, everyone!
We’re having a bit of a cool spell — it’s only 90 instead of 102 here! — and our summer is going pretty well. I just read Sharon Astyk’s blog, which reminded me to do my Independence days update. It’s been quite dry here, the bit of rain we got a couple of days [...]
It’s been hot and humid here, with no rain for a couple of weeks. We could use some rain.
Planted: corn, more tomato plants, shallots.
Harvested: chard, onions, peas, blackberries, a strawberry here and there.
Froze the peas, also still drying weeds for the bunnies. Have a couple large bags full now.
Today I’m making broth out of chicken [...]
Seems that summer is here — temperatures in the 90+ range, sunny, and humid.
Planted four more tomato plants, harvested a lot of onions and scallions, some peas, and a couple cups of blackberries (which disappeared like magic! ). And of course lots of weeds for the rabbits.
Made a braid of six of the [...]
No, I haven’t dropped off the face of the earth.
Just been a little busy.
We got the daughter graduated (whew!), the boys are doing their band thing every day, and we’ve been doing a lot of discussion about the wedding, which is in mid-July. Fortunately my daughter has found a place she really likes, [...]
Sharon Astyk’s post reminded me about Independence Days, which I had thought about in the “oh yeah I need to be doing this” but not in the sense of “oh yeah I need to do this NOW”. Thanks for the nudge!
So we’re back on. She has altered the rules a bit … every day you [...]
Swine. Flu?
Okay.
First of all, it’s not the swine flu. It’s the H1N1 strain of Influenza A, a combination of bird, human and swine flu.
So how does this work?
The flu bug is the loose lady of the virus world. It will infect just about anything with a pulse, and changes itself to make it more attractive [...]
Natural World — A Farm for the Future (49 min, safe for work/children)
Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family’s farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key.
It’s supposed to snow this weekend, probably starting tomorrow. We’re supposed to get a couple inches; in the panhandle it might be up to eight inches, along with high winds, blowing snow, and all that lovely stuff.It’s blustery and cold outside; I know because I went out and covered up my garden plots again, so [...]
We had a week or so of nice weather and now we’re back to cold again. And that reminded me of the “Freeze Yer Buns” challenge, and that I hadn’t written about how that went since I started participating.
At first everyone whined and moaned about how cold it was, except my husband who likes it [...]
Here it is March already.
I’ve been out planting peas and potting up tomato seedlings and baby aloe vera plants this week. The bunny has opened her eyes (at least, I think it’s a female) and she’s a red-eyed white. Very pretty.
Check this out: Weather.com’s planting map! I have this set for early April (which is [...]
I haven’t posted for a while on what I’m doing, so I thought I would
Planted snow peas today … been repotting some of the many tomato seedlings on my kitchen windowsill … spun some handpainted salmon-colored roving (no, I didn’t paint it, I got it from the farmers’ market last year) … did [...]
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