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Winter Green

The garden grows beneath a layer of summer gone. I combed dry leaves and branches from parsley, asparagus, iris and lily leaves, green and crisp and pulled on roots of grass and peppermint, to restrain them.

Spring Harvest

I don’t know why but growing food works as eye candy too.

Plans to Plant

I have plans to put these two couples to bed, and nurture some grapes and blackberries. Two things you could never have enough of for jam and juice or just fresh off the vine.

Preparing for Spring

I cut the dry asparagus stems that I never did cut back at the start of winter, but I left the tomato baskets I keep over them, so that I know where they are.

Lavender in Winter

There are many flowers and smells and sights to gush about in the spring and summer, but some plants offer pleasures year-round. Lavender is perennial and evergreen. Lavender leaves smell just as strong as the flowers. If you rub the leaves between your fingers the …

Just sharing a little bit of Spring with everyone.

When we moved here almost six years ago, the field in front of my kitchen window was an empty field. Now we have a baby fruit orchard and all the variety of trees are beginning to bloom. From here on in it will be a competition between the insects, the birds, the squirrels and us for the fruit. Continue reading “The View from my Kitchen Window” →

Spring Flowers

Food comes from flowers, reason enough to love them. It is no superficial relationship that we have with these beauties. But beauty helps doesn’t it?