A couple years ago, I discovered I loved leeks.
Yesterday, I bumped my tray of leek seedlings.
I will be starting over.
I will not be denied my potato leek soup!
Tag: vegetable garden
Heirloom Tomatoes
It’s so hard to choose which varieties will make the grow list each spring.
That’s why the greenhouse will be filled again this year with lots of plants.
Extra, extra sale in May!
Garden Cravings
The grocery stores have been filled with strawberries, but I really crave a bowl of fresh picked berries from my own garden!
Seed To Soil
In just a few short weeks, I will start trays of seeds for the next garden season.
This process may just be my favorite part of gardening. The greenhouse is warm and moisture covers the inside glass, giving almost a watercolor effect to the snowy landscape outside.
Quiet days, filling pots and trays of herbs, vegetables and flowers.
I fill the greenhouse from top to bottom, enough for me, and plenty to offer in a little “Extra Sale”
This year I will also be growing flowers and herbs that will be used in our daughters wedding.
Garden Art
These Ornamental Kale are really visual art in the garden.
Full of color, texture and Vitamins!
A Basket Of Tomatoes
And so much more.
In January, while the Minnesota soil is frozen and buried in several feet of snow;
my gardening soul dreams of these delicious tomatoes.
Dramatic? Maybe, but really, it’s not just the delicious tomatoes.
It’s the process.
The seeds carefully saved and sorted.
The kitchen garden plan carefully drawn out of paper.
The day I drive to Farmer’s Seed And Nursery to chat with the workers,
and purchase my potting ingredients.
When I gather seed trays and fill them, and place those first seeds,
the temperatures are usually well below zero here when these chores occur.
I long for warm sunshine, time in the garden, ‘bring on the sweat” I say.
The house quiet and sun bursting through my windows this morning, I gathered tomatoes.
Kitties weaved through my legs, and dew dropped in my eyes as I practically crawled into the plants to reach the ripe ones.
My arms are stained with tomato stem juices and it’s a fragrance not available at department stores.
I’m a gardener.
And today I’m going to eat tomatoes.
Eat Your Vegetables
The kitchen garden is packed full of tasty vegetables this year.
Some may say the beds are a bit over planted (my husband!), but I didn’t want to waste one little bit of space this year.
We snacked on fresh pea pods and green beans yesterday, and our first cucumbers today.
Pesto to make this week with Basil plants growing quickly.
Tending
The garden is growing quickly now.
Storms in the forecast for the next 4 days, with heavy rain.
Hope the garden can hang on thru this next round of weather.
Mother Nature please be kind to us!
Glorious Sunshine
The sun just makes things–better.
A week of storms, damaging winds and more rain than ever recorded in this Counties history.
The garden is slowly recovering, the water soaking in.
What you can’t see in this image; millions of mosquitoes!
It’s My Anniversary!
I have been blogging about this little garden for 3 years!
Spending time in my little greenhouse and garden provides me with so much more than fresh vegetables, herbs, and pretty flowers.
Sharing and chatting with people from all over the world–has fed my soul more than I ever knew possible.
Thank you to all who stop by.
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