We are finally starting to sell our soap in local stores around town! Jeff and I are very excited about this new project. I've been designing label art and coming up with soap recipes, he h...
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A post full of pictures as we look towards fall and winter. Since we've had a couple weeks of 80 and 90 degree temperatures each day and no rain, I am ready for snow. The garden is doing pre...
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Ta-dah! So much bigger and better than last year. We just got our soil test back from our local extension office. The results were: very high nutrients, excellent pH - do nothing! We just go...
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Free 3-month old bantam rooster to a good* home. Perfect for the person** who wants a 5:00 am wake-up call and frequent reminders throughout the day to stay awake. *Highly liberal definition ...
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A bed by bed tour of our veggies. The corn is only a couple inches high. We've had cool weather and lots of rain recently. I'm not holding my breath on the corn. It just might be too cool in...
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Our 30 some lupins around the yard are starting to flower. This is the first time that most of them have flowered. I started one packet of blue seeds and one of rainbow colors about 1.5 years a...
Our garden is officially 100% planted. (Unofficially there are some leftover potatoes from our neighbor, some more shade plants, and two apple trees left to plant.) Above you can see our berry...
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This weekend was the big weekend for gardening in Montana. Supposedly the chance of frost has now passed and everyone was busy planting everything out. Jeff and I finished planting the warm weath...
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We are almost done planting things out in our garden. This weekend I started hardening off the squash and cukes. Store-bought tomatoes were planted out yesterday despite our last frost date being...
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We have officially kicked our little chickadees out of the house. Jeff and I were sick and tired of our upstairs smelling like chickens and the chicks were starting to jump out of the bath tub....
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Click the Hyacinth to go to Bloomin' Tuesday A couple things are blooming around the garden. Hyacinth are just about at full bloom. The asparagus just started coming up today. Of course th...
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The chicks are getting so much bigger... and so much more challenging to photograph. All of the chickens minus one buff orpington stayed in the basket for a good 30 seconds as I got my camera ...
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Introducing... Our little flock of chicks! We actually have six chicks, but only five are pictured. Trying to take pictures of a flock of chicks is possibly more difficult than cat herding. On...
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Click on the mums to go to Bloomin' Tuesday at Jean's blog. It's a nice way to see a sample of what is going on in different areas of the planet. This spring is especially exciting for us. We ...
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Here are some pictures to illustrate what has been going on in our indoor and outdoor gardens. It's been going fairly slow the last couple months (hence, no posts). Primarily within the last week...
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Spring is in full-swing in the solarium and is just beginning in our greenhouse. We cleaned out the greenhouse today and started a few trays of seeds for transplanting into the greenhouse and out...
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We are enjoying winter but starting to actively look forward to spring and summer. I've drawn up the plan for our garden next year with some slight modifications from what we did last year. Thi...
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We have been loving the snow recently. We've got over a foot on the ground and may get up to another foot in the next couple days! Snowboarding season is finally on the horizon! Obviously we...
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It's hard to believe that it has been 2 months since I posted an update. We have been busy with our garden and with life. Here are a couple pictures that I meant to post and some recent picture...
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It's been a while since my last update, I kept waiting to post an update until everything took off and was huge. This hasn't happened yet and probably won't happen this year. According to the l...
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Click on the Marigold to go to Jean's blog and Bloomin' Tuesday. The marigolds in the greenhouse are getting big. These blooms are 3-4 inches across. The greenhouse violas are sprawling. I k...
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Today's harvest included about 1.5 pounds of tomatoes and a 1/2 pound of peppers. I sliced the tomatoes into 1/4 inch chunks and coated them with a little bit of olive oil, salt, pepper and s...
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Tonight's harvest resulted in what I am now calling Rasta Pasta. 1 lb 8 oz of tomatoes, 7 oz of peppers. Added this to some Italian Sausage and Pasta. Yum!
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Our monster tomato plants are taking over the solarium. This picture was taken about 3 weeks ago after our first harvest of ripe tomatoes. I was so excited to have ripe home grown tomatoes this ...
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Our outdoor garden is now completely planted. We could have planted some things (peas, potatoes, onion sets, garlic) earlier, but have been so busy with garden construction that some plantings we...
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