The potatoes are starting to get big!
Some of the beets the deer didn’t get are ready to pick. These are my favorite food.
And now we have a rabbit. grrrrr….
My onions are getting really big! I can’t wait to see how big they get.
Scout napping while I weed.
Beets, greens, garlic and potatoes for dinner. We ate it all, no leftovers.
Every time I buy a lemon I save the seeds and put them in a pot. I do have to cover it so the cat doesn’t eat the leaves. I will use this in some dishes but they need to be put in separate pots.
Snapdragon
More work with the trees but this time we are making ramial wood chips. I will be making a blog post about the benefits of these and why we went though the trouble.
The wild blueberries are ripe!
As are the wild raspberries!
A mama spider protecting her egg sack. I let her stay, she can eat all the bugs and so can her babies!
These snowball bushes took a beating several years ago when heavy snow broke a lot of the top branches down and then the mice had a hay day all winter. They are finally back to their splendor. I love when they are blooming.
Last fall we decided to put a berm up by the road to combat the dust and gravel that gets tossed into the yard. The mound is full of many things, all of them are quite hardy. Daisy, Lilly of the Valley, Black Eyed Susan, Day Lily, Spider Wort and more. It turned out so much nicer than we thought it would.
Beets! I love beets and greens…so yummy.
The first pepper!
Let the jungle begin! These are only two weeks apart!
A vacant land update. This area was overtaken by raspberries. You couldn’t even walk and they were as tall as me. We brush hogged them and planted rye. The rye has done a really good job at holding back the wild blackberry and raspberry. Don’t worry I still have plenty for wild foraging!
The fruit trees at the vacant land are struggling due to drought so I have had to go back to hand watering them. You can see the signs of stress.
A little raspberry patch we have left. I will also grow some cultivated breeds in a patch.