On this dreary day, it’s nice to have a reminder of the honey harvest to come. On Sunday, JR placed the bee excluder – the function of which is just as it sounds, it limits the bees’ access to the honey super (the box containing the capped honeycomb, to be less technical) – into our… Continue Reading
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This week in the garden – end of August: tomatoes and sunflowers
We wait all year for this moment in the garden, and finally, it’s here. The blackberries are still – still! – producing, if only barely. Between our neighbors next door and us, we’ve picked them pretty clean, though there will barely be a moment to be sad when their season has gone by because now,… Continue Reading
Tips for Harvesting Blackberries
It’s still blackberry season at our house. Just yesterday afternoon, as our neighbors very kindly handed JR a half-dozen ears of (very sweet and delicious) corn from their garden, the three of them waxed on about how many freaking berries there are this year. The canes around our garden abut their hay field, and so… Continue Reading
This week in the garden – end of July: tomatoes, eggplant, and blackberries
I’ve been a little remiss about garden updates these last few weeks. With family in town from Los Angeles mid-month, followed by an uncontrollable need to get to Block Island (if you know The Block, you understand), we’ve been on the go, and I’ve been keeping my distance from the computer, which isn’t a bad… Continue Reading
This Week in the Garden – end of June: hello greens, goodbye peonies & wisteria
Oh, and there was a skunk in our henhouse eating eggs all of last weekend, too. But that’s not technically the garden, even if he did stank up the garden on the night he was discovered robbing the eggs. We are eating giant mixed green salads every night at dinner, which is really fabulous, but… Continue Reading