I’m sorry I haven’t been writing! I realized that this makes a whole year that I have been dedicatedly writing here – and then was forced to take a break by computer problems. Easter was wonderful….it was just right. Not too busy or full, just right. Painting blown eggs for our Easter tree,…
Author: toadstoolsfairyrings
In the Garden: Kohlrabi, Kohlrabi, Kohlrabi
As I have said before, the winter garden is in decline, but we are still suffering through the kohlrabi. Well, perhaps suffer is too strong a word, because I really do like it, although it doesn’t seem as versatile as the lettuce was, when you eat it every night for dinner (and lunch). While it…
Recovering
Man, I’ve been sick. It wasn’t one of those colds that allow you to still shuffle about your day – it was one that knocks you out. But I’m better now, and resting was enforced. It’s been awhile since I’ve been so sick. I went to the farm for the first time this week yesterday. …
The Cruel Frost
The night before last I woke up suddenly, long after midnight, with that strange, scratchy, dizzy feeling I get when the first grip of illness comes into my awareness. So I was not just tired, I was also sick. We’ve had so few illnesses this spring compared to last year when Rose was attending pre-school…
In the Garden: Hello Summer!
My silence here this week is not only because of melancholy and exhaustion, also our computer has not been behaving itself. There’s always something broken around here. It keeps things interesting. Ethan and I almost killed ourselves trying to get the summer garden built. We’re mostly better, but I’m still bone-dead exhausted, and Ethan’s back…
In the Garden: Welcoming Summer
The winter garden is at the point of maturing and declining. I could re-plant things, but I am happy to let what we have still be enough. This way, all our attention is on laying the foundations of our summer garden. In the very warm weather, the brassicas have burst into bloom, broccoli going to…
Yarn Along: Redneck Doormat
I probably shouldn’t even tell anyone about this project….if you were expecting to see pictures of a nearly completed, beautifully knitted Scandinavian-style colorwork sweater (like the one I put up for the last Yarn Along), SORRY. That project isn’t going so well – the colorwork, it turns out, changes the gauge ever so slightly, and…
Nature Finds: Spring
Spring is really here – a little late this year (for Florida). Many of the plums have finished blooming in town, but the Chickasaw plum in the garden just burst into flower. Even the shy dogwoods are white in the woods. The late-blooming blueberries are now covered in flowers. The bushes are so tall now…
Work is Love
Worked slavishly in the garden over the weekend. Three beds were built on Friday – some in driving rain. Two and a half on Saturday. I couldn’t move Sunday, just flopped around on a blanket in the shade with Clothilde while Ethan took over and built another three and a half. Something about heaving the…
In the Garden: Beets!
It was such a surprise to pull these beautiful beets out of the garden this week! Despite my dad’s claims that growing beets is “easy” (I have never seen him grow a beet as long as I’ve been alive), I have not had any luck with them until this year. They really don’t like Florida’s…
Toadstools And Fairy Rings 