The garden bed after the main harvest. All that was left was some celery (still unsure how that got in there) and a few sad onions. But I got it cleared out and ready for garlic last week. And I planted 110 garlic cloves in it this week! (I have to put these DIY squirrel…
I didn’t do well in the garden this year. I think we had 3 days of rain, total, for the summer, and it was all I could do to keep things alive, and the plants showed the stress. However, I had enough tomatoes to make a big batch of our favorite pizza sauce! We make…
My garden notebook was a little neglected in March and April, but I managed to get a few things in there. I am using it to keep track of weather, temps, and what I’m doing when in the weekly pages. I’m also trying to do at least one sketch per week to build my skills…
Each fall and winter I try to put my garden “to bed” before the weeds get too bad. I was late getting to it this year, but it doesn’t matter that much as we don’t have to rush to beat snow. Here’s how I do it. Here’s how the east part of our garden looked…
This year I purchased a Hobonichi Techo Mega Weeks planner to use as my garden planner/journal. It’s a spendy planner, but I really like how they’re laid out. I’ve been using a Hobonichi Cousin planner for 3 years now and love it, so I thought I’d give the Weeks planner a try too. (There are…
I am working on my 2025 goals and will share them next week, but thought first we might need to catch up a bit. 2024 was a good but hard year and I was pretty quiet here on the blog. In January 2024 my father-in-law died and my mother-in-law was a widow for the second…
I only have a couple pages to share with you from my Homestead Notebook. I’m hoping to get back into doing some garden/nature studies in it along with notes from planting and harvesting. One veggie I’m trying to learn more about growing is onions. I’ve successfully grown them, but they are very small, so I’m…
I hope to make a semi-regular habit of posting what’s going on around here. These posts will be things that aren’t really worth a full post themselves, but things that I think you might find interesting or helpful or fun. Seed Snail starting Have you heard of this? A couple of YouTubers I follow have…
It’s that time of year again here in the Pacific NW! Time to start planning the garden and starting some seeds (Why have starts from the stores gotten SO expensive?!) I have a mix of seeds, some from my favorite Etsy seller Seed Geeks, some from the store, some home saved seeds, some from Urban…
Bullet Journal plans for 2023 Next year will be my 10th year of bullet journaling! A decade of my life is now recorded in Bullet Journals. So, I was thinking that’s a pretty big milestone, and based on all the questions and comments I’ve gotten over the years, maybe 2023 will be a good time…