On the first day of summer, my tomatoes celebrated by deciding to ripen a bunch of themselves at once!

The red ones were turned into sauce already – which we ate over some chicken breasts with …

One thing about eating the way that we do – mostly meat, produce, eggs, and dairy – is that it makes it difficult to have a store of food ready in case of an emergency. …

One thing I had been curious about for a long time was the beet plant. I kept asking, “How many beets will one beet seedling make?” and no one could tell me… no book, no …

Jealous yet?

3 squashes, one of which is hilariously bumpy
1 zucchini
1 cucumber, which was a total surprise to me
A few stalks of broccoli
A small banana pepper
A small jalapeno pepper (figured I’d pick these peppers so the …

Here’s a quick run-down of the news in the garden these days.
The pepper plants are all still very small, but some of them have peppers on them! Here are a couple green bell peppers. The …

Thanks SO MUCH to Northern Monkey Girl for this comment on my last gardening post:
Hey, about the broccoli, it sounds like you have the sprouting broccoli type rather than the calabrese? The calabrese is the …

So every time I take photos of the garden and then forget to post them, by the time I remember (even 2-3 days later) the garden has changed so much again that I have to …

Last year, I promised I’d be better about updating y’all on my garden. And so far, so good! My iPhone definitely helps – I can snap photos on it, edit them using my new favorite …

The plants are all doing pretty well. They look bright green and very happy – they get hours and hours of sunshine every day. The biggest tomato plant has a few yellow flowers on it, …

It seems that here in Hanford, we’re getting out of the rainy/foggy season finally. The sun is shining, the skies are blue, my husband is flying more and more, and I’m shedding my jackets and …

Yesterday I hit 20 weeks in this pregnancy. A lot of people will say, “Wow, 20 weeks! You’re halfway through! But that’s only part true… while a pregnancy may last 40 weeks on average, for …

You know how people say, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” to mean, “take something not-great and turn it into something awesome”? Why is that? Lemons are wonderful! They look gorgeous on the trees, …