Tag: winter

  • Return to the Light

    Return to the Light

    Winter holy days are meant to feel like a return to lightness and hope. If you dread the approach of holiday festivities, give yourself permission NOT to participate, Give yourself space to create something new that nourishes your soul.

  • Transplanting Day

    I’ve done all that I can do for them. Now I’ll have to see if it was enough to get back some love.

  • Transplanting Day

    I’ve done all that I can do for them. Now I’ll have to see if it was enough to get back some love.

  • Winter Tomato Woes

    Winter Tomato Woes

    Despite the negative feedback, I have not given up. I am still doing what I can to cultivate a relationship between me and my heirloom tomatoes that’s more than a summer romance. #tomatoes #homestead #wintergarden

  • Winter Tomato Woes

    Winter Tomato Woes

    Despite the negative feedback, I have not given up. I am still doing what I can to cultivate a relationship between me and my heirloom tomatoes that’s more than a summer romance. #tomatoes #homestead #wintergarden

  • Seeds are the Start

    Seeds are the Start

    One reason I am starting early is that I don’t have many flowers in my deck pots right now. I want to fill them with cheerful winter hardy flowers.

  • Seeds are the Start

    Seeds are the Start

    One reason I am starting early is that I don’t have many flowers in my deck pots right now. I want to fill them with cheerful winter hardy flowers.

  • Bedded Berries

    The blueberries are already budding, and the Winter Wonder, Camelia is about to bloom.​ #homestead #mulch #winter

  • Planning for the Future

    Planning for the Future

    So, if all goes according to plan, there will be peace this summer, and some healthy tomatoes growing in that spot in my garden.

  • Wearing a Winter Coat

    I’m a little late but took advantage of a sunny day to give the garden some protection from the winter weather.

  • Wearing a Winter Coat

    I’m a little late but took advantage of a sunny day to give the garden some protection from the winter weather.

  • Adding a new Trick…

    Adding a new Trick…

    The area is right now covered with weeds and crabgrass. There is nothing I would like better than to cover that spot, which is hard as bricks, with newspaper, rather than try to hoe it up.

  • Adding a new Trick…

    Adding a new Trick…

    The area is right now covered with weeds and crabgrass. There is nothing I would like better than to cover that spot, which is hard as bricks, with newspaper, rather than try to hoe it up.

  • From frugal fare…

    From frugal fare…

    … this winter I am happy with my hoops, a sheet of agribon and some old planks and bricks.

  • Strawberry Surprise

    While stepping on carefully placed stones on an errand in the garden of my hours, my eyes scour either side of the path