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My brain is bursting with the possibilities of SPRING on the homestead. The birds have started chirping, there's the faintest green tint to the prairie when you look out across the wide open space, and the air smells alive and fresh after many months of BLAH. Are we done with snow storms? No way. But we're getting closer. I repotted the tomatoes and peppers this week, and they're happily growing under their lights in the basement. ...Continue Reading

I'm about to say something very controversial. Sacrilegious, even. Well, at least in homestead circles. Like always, a part of me is stoked for spring. STOKED, I tell you. The seedlings are growing in the basement, and I walk through the dormant garden about once every 3 days dreaming and planning. But a part of me is (gulp) is entirely OK with the fact I have two more months until we're really ready to plant.  I heard ...Continue Reading

"Anyone who thinks gardening begins in the spring and ends in the fall is missing the best part of the whole year; for gardening begins in January with the dream." --Josephine Nuese As I type this, we are in the midst of a good old-fashioned Wyoming ground blizzard, complete with road closures, snow sand-blasting your face when you step out the door, and drifts higher than my knees. We knew it was coming when it dumped nearly ...Continue Reading

  I've never met a potato I didn't like. I'd eat them for every meal if I could, and I usually have to force myself to think of alternative side dishes, because in my world, potatoes go with everything. (This may have to do with the fact I grew up in Idaho? I can't help myself.) Therefore, it's only logical they'd be one of my most-favorite things to grow in the garden. I get all-sorts of giddy when I'm pulling pounds and ...Continue Reading

I sure didn't want to be writing this post... But part of being a blogger is allowing you, my wonderful readers, a glimpse into my life-- and that includes both the good and the bad. I've alluded several times in my newsletter, and here on the blog, that I've had a rather bizarre, and quite unproductive gardening year. At first I just thought it was coincidence and that I simply lost the gamble this year... (Because we ...Continue Reading