by Daisy | Jun 28, 2010 | Recipes, Snacks & Sides
I’m going to have to buy squash to make this from now on because my eight squash plants produced a total of 4 squash before I ripped them out. They were infested with squash borers and squash bugs and I gave them to the chickens. I hope they ate every bug....
by Ivory Soap | Jun 24, 2010 | Drama, Fencepost
This has been a tough year for the Caswell farm. We’ve lost: Monty to a raccoon Baby chick #3 to the next door dog Spiky Hermit Crab to depression (never came out of his shell) And the other one to heaven-knows-what a couple of months later. And ten...
by Daisy | Jun 7, 2010 | Beginner Gardens, Garden
I decided to do a little tutorial on how I grow salad greens after the following conversation with my husband: Me: How much do you think this would cost in the store, a huge bowl of fresh organic mixed salad greens? Husband: Oh, about four dollars. But that’s...
by Daisy | Jun 4, 2010 | Conversation, Fencepost
The winter before last, I cut all the blackberry canes nearly to the ground in the misguided understanding that they would recover in time to produce the following summer. They didn’t. In retrospect, I should only have cut the canes which had borne fruit that...
by Daisy | Jun 1, 2010 | Conversation, Fencepost
I have it on good authority that this is actual, real squash: It ‘s a White Lebanese. Maybe the wedding tent is working. Time will tell. I’m hand-pollinating any female blossoms I see and I haven’t witnessed any squash pest attacks so far. Of...
