Somehow between the traveling to wrestling tournaments, and extended bouts of ill health, February garden prep at the Simons Gardens crawls on. No, I don’t have my lettuce started. I wish I had a cool photo of an emerging green house to show you, but all I have is stakes in the ground so farContinue reading “Publish or Perish?”
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Growing Our Healthcare
Oooh! scary title! — But this is actually not a post about politics, but about growing your own healthcare products. Time to start thinking about your summer gardens!… Edward meets all kinds of interesting people through work – he’s the CEO of his own company Safeware, a safety product distributor. A few weeks back overContinue reading “Growing Our Healthcare”
Get Ready—
I have something exciting to show you today. Are you ready? Ok — Tadumm!! WOW!! The garlic is UP! – isn’t it beautiful? Could it be that last fall’s kale will over-winter and start up again in spring? (Also can someone tell me why the leaves are still being chewed? who knew kale was soContinue reading “Get Ready—”
Supergirls
Good January Morning! Garden Update: The parsley is all that’s left, but it’s still going! Through snow, thru ice, thru frigid nights! Tough stuff. What a great symbol for human growth and survival, right? OR for a relationship! And speaking of relationships, gardens, and chickens, today I am re-posting something irresistible – from another chicken loverContinue reading “Supergirls”
How Does Your Muscle Grow?
So friends, ’tis true, your garden beds are bare. But there is something that we gardeners can still be growing — even in this dark and dreary, un-gardenable season. You don’t even have to go outside to do it. Yes, I thought, as I huffed through a plank (yes one plank) this morning, this isContinue reading “How Does Your Muscle Grow?”
CEOs Grow their Own?
Salad greens picked this December morning – not that big a deal for a full-time grower, but we aren’t that. Edward and I struggle to fit gardening into our schedules. He is a CEO and I am a writer, when I am not everything else including landlord, which is my contribution to the cash flow.Continue reading “CEOs Grow their Own?”
Tribute to White Chicken
Yesterday White Chicken was diagnosed. The real cause of her ill health was “internal egg laying.” There is no certain cause of internal laying, and no real cure. It means that a chicken’s yolks (ovum) begin to be deposited in her internal body cavity, rather than traveling down the oviduct, getting clothed in egg whiteContinue reading “Tribute to White Chicken”
Vent Gleet: Clearing Up Messy Vents in Laying Hens
Ohoh! You can’t hide and running away won’t help you, honey! Two of our chickens now have white discharge stuck to their butts, and this morning’s research suggests they have “vent gleet.” Hooray there are some easy fixes. Sharing this article with with you – here’s to poultry health! Messy vents are not uncommon forContinue reading “Vent Gleet: Clearing Up Messy Vents in Laying Hens”
Mary and Marianne
Like so many who survived The Great Depression, my mother’s mother was a big canner. I never knew Mary Scalbom Nicholson in those days – by the time we grandkids were snacking round her kitchen table, or massed around the big green picnic table in the backyard, Grama had given up canning tomatoes and peaches.Continue reading “Mary and Marianne”
Harvest Moon Racoon
What a summer! Chicken and veggie adventures! And here it is harvest again. End of year review — in words and photos: Year in review: 2016 – started out wet, but ended so very dry. Cool spring, so Asparagus came up late this year – (it loved the fall manure Edward put down! lots ofContinue reading “Harvest Moon Racoon”
Suburban Growing 