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It is an unscheduled flight of stairs to be precise. Last Thursday 2/18 I walked outside at 5:30 am to go to work hit an icy spot on the deck steps and had a nasty wreck down to the bottom. Now I’m laid up with a broken ankle, fractured fibula just below the knee, and surprising how many breaks...

DW purchased a packet of seeds that was marked mixed winter squash. We got a few different varieties and We are not squash experts. Some help with identifying them and if they are ripe.

Our first seed order of the year came today We ordered seed from Irish Eyes garden seeds based in central Washington. First time we have ordered from them, the website was easy to navigate, the prices were good and not a large but reasonable selection of seeds, roots, and plants. It was also...

for mother’s day I built a vegetable garden gate for DW. I would have posted it earlier but work is taking up all my time, we have been working nights paving for a month or more. All our projects are falling behind from this work schedule. I think it turned out nice and Angie loves it , so I...

my plan this season was to limit the number of tomato varieties being started and kind of whittle it down to my top 3. That plan is now out because there is lots of seeds I have not tried lol. Here is what has been seeded NYers *Phoenix Shoshone *Bushsteak Hybrid Sunsugar *Sweet millions *Jelly...

I think most remember earlier this year I injured my back working on a custom home site.Then I dropped a log on my foot and busting up my toes. Welp Tuesday I topped both of those. I had to climb up on a dump truck to fix the automatic tarp. Well I stood up on headache rack took one step...

I am not sure how much a peck of peppers actually is but I picked this many Golden Greeks this morning Going to make peppercinnis however you spell it lol. We only have 6 Gg plants but we picked this many this time. This is the second picking the first one was half this much.

Now this some great shovel work

i am going straight to the issues here. The last time I ate sweet corn from our garden is 2010. You might wonder why I quit growing it, the answer is I grow it every year lol. It grows fine and tassels then the silk shows up and before it gets pollinated something eats the silks off. It...

What kind of bug is this, I found it by the garden.

living along two creeks we are surrounded by cottonwood trees. And they are dumping this morning.

So I was hoeing the weeds around the horse radish , something I do only couple times per year. I found a fresh small gopher mound right behind it so I set a trap and Viola one down.

I took a picture on 3.12.17 and a picture on 3.12.18 from the same basic spot. The first one is 3.12.18 today Second pic is 3.12.17 Big difference from last year.

today we started seeding some of our garden plants. We planted 6 tomato varieties, 5 different peppers , 2 types of broccoli, some snowball cauliflower, cabbages, and a few different hoards. A couple other things I don’t remember right now. This is what it looks like now The plants under the...

when our order from Sandhill came in the mail they included three packs of seeds to try. First is, Mississippi brown cotton. It is a 130 days to maturity defiantly not planting it. Second one is, Eckert pink polish tomato, It a large beefsteak slicer type tomato, it is said to be more sweet...

Today at 12:53 PM we received a brand new gardener. Thomas Michael, 9.7# 21 inches long and a full head of hair. He Is super a cute and so far content young man. So this is new to DW and I, our first grandchild and brand new family member. We are feeling excited and blessed.

One of our dogs has this spot in the center of his back just behind front shoulders. My first thought is hot spot but it is middle of winter so not sure. I also think DW been sneaking him a lot of people food, not sure though. Any ideas

i have been working on our new kitchen remodel for the past week and a half, we have been without a sink or dishwasher from the day after Christmas. It has been a whole lot of work so far for me but should have all but one of the new cabinets in today. The other cabinet is back ordered and not...

Here are some pics I took of DWs blooms most of these are in containers. Peonies Marigold Dahlia Dahlia LiliesGerber Dailey Petunia one of about 150 she started from seed. She also has several other annuals started from seed including some kind dahlias from seed that I did not post pictures of.

Looks like we will be having sautéed radishes with our supper tonight. I like planting radishes they are fast growing and are usually the first thing we harvest here.