Goodness!! The crabapple and aspen leaves in my yard are already starting to turn! Needless to say, I am not ready for fall.  We...

  I saw this wreath over at Cherry Hill Cottage awhile back.   SO cute!! It took a very LONG time to collect enough clay pots, thoug...

  We are not supposed to be able to grow blueberries here.  Blueberries ideally like a PH of around 4.5- 5.0 and our native soil is clo...

So listen.  Spring is never a picnic in our area.  It’s typically pretty snowy/rainy/windy/cool {take your pick} and we can get a frost...

  I’m enjoying seeing many of your garden updates this spring! So far there is not much to report here on the high plains… Snowy pine tre...

I am longing for a bit of green in these cold and blustery days…. Just a couple of weeks now and I will be able to get the seed starting s...

It’s just a few weeks away from being warm enough to plant my little seedlings in the actual ground  :)  Because of our short growing seaso...

Snowing.  8 degrees.  A long way until anything remotely close to spring arrives. And being an optimist, I’m finishing up my seed orders...

September 3.  It was a little early, even for our high altitude climate.  The forecast was for a low of 40 and there was no frost warning.  ...

These tomatoes have not been pruned and you can see how close the leaves are to the ground. . . a disease ladder waiting to happen.  Lot...

I haven’t written much about the garden yet this year.  It’s been extremely cold, windy and wet – even by the standards of our high altitude...

Remember my clay pot wreath from last year? Sill LOVE it, but. . .  THIS happened to some of the pots and they needed to be replaced:  ...

Looking through a few seed catalogs helps me like J anuary just a teensy tiny bit more:       They offer hope that one day.  One.D...

The vegetable and flower starter plants are still inside in my homemade light stand…   Poor babies.   Most years, they are at least outsid...