Category Archives: Gardening

Some weeds are pretty

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Frog

A bunch of these appeared in the yard this week: I went around them with the lawn mower yesterday because there’s so little color in our yard (the house was built in 1932 how can there be no bulbs?!). Turns … Continue reading →

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I need to be more careful

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Frog

Our fig tree is starting to produce ripe figs. It has had unripe figs for a couple of months but now they are turning into deliciousness. I picked two today when I was out fiddling with pool stuff and had … Continue reading →

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Volunteers

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Frog

There are two more on the monster squash plant in the compost pile.

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First

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Frog

The first jalapeño. We have one pepper plant and one tomato plant. They share a pot with a basil plant. A few other herbs round out the extent of our gardening this year (we did put in garlic last fall … Continue reading →

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Who is in there?

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Frog

We saw the first swallowtail of the season (Virginia’s state bug) and went out to investigate. Specifically, we wanted to know if it came out of the above. Nope, that little package is still wrapped up. And, the swallowtail evaded … Continue reading →

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The Garden

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Frog

We went out to the garden today to mow down the weeds in the asparagus patch. The better-half hit the fruit vines too. I’m happy to say the chives survived their wintering in the garage and I dug up either … Continue reading →

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Red Skies in Morning

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Frog

The above picture does no justice to how brilliant the sky was this morning. Pink was everywhere. Of course, it’s raining now. The rain is a good thing since it was so windy yesterday which made everything seem so dry. … Continue reading →

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I had to laugh to myself because on any given day*

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Frog

Raise your hand if you knew this post was inevitable. Yeah, my hand is up too. I am calling the garden a failure again this summer. This week I’ve pulled up the tomatoes and I transplanted the tarragon to the … Continue reading →

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Fig Preserves

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Frog

My mother came over this afternoon and we made fig preserves. She couldn’t find her mother’s recipe so we used one from Emeril. It is dead easy and because of its simplicity that’s why we went with his recipe. It … Continue reading →

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Before I bumped the web with the lawn mower

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Frog

I carefully avoided hitting the web with the weed eater. Good job me. Then I bumped it with the push lawn mower. Bad job me. The spider immediately began fixing the web. So all is not lost. I took some … Continue reading →

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