Keeping House

The pile of pavers and sand for The Path have kept the kids busy for hours.

Isaac and Syd look like ragamuffin, pioneer homesteaders: gathering buffalo chips for fuel, sweeping their dirt floors, reinforcing their abode which they Made With Their Own Bare Hands. Ignore the large plastic playthings from the future.

A Stroll Through The Garden

How does one grow those huge heads of cauliflower like in the stores?

Lemon Cucumber

The Pear Tree that was Sown In Ill Will.

It caught a bad virus secondary to the long, wet spring/summer. But it figures since it was Sown In Ill Will. The kids helped me strip all the virus-laden-ed leaves off. It recovered beautiful. But no pears. Figures.

Mmmm! Sown in yummy organic compost (wait. is "organic compost" redundant?).
Dah! Ripped off again!

The summer of the green tomato

I grew this with the intent of foraying into new culinary delights. But I haven't harvested it because what in the heck does one do with Swiss Chard?

Hummingbird friendly

Name this brassica :).

The hot debate at our house is Golden Raspberries vs. Red Raspberries
These are from the progeny of the starts Mrs. Z gave me years ago.

O, Plant A Watermelon Seed On My Grave

Clara takes after her great-grandma Kartchner in her love for watermelon.