Category: Gardening and Harvesting
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Garden Bounty
I have a black thumb. I have been known to kill plants easily. However, this year, my stepdad is staying up here, and he always has a garden. We’re doing one, too. It’s been a wild success – lots of peppers and tomatoes, and even a large batch of peas, not to mention the lettuce… Continue reading
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Garden Bounty
The simplest of garden pleasures: a lovely, vine-ripened tomato. Prompt: Simplicity is economy. Make the simplest photograph you can today. Take things out until you can’t remove anything else. Continue reading
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Horizontal Lines
Not my garden, but these are nice lines of winter crops. Prompt: Find a strong series of horizontal lines or elements and make a photograph of it today. Continue reading
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Nine
These are some lovely lettuces in a friend’s garden. I have a black thumb, but we trade sheep manure for veggies. Prompt: Make a photograph with either 9 or 6 (components of today’s date) represented in some way and post it today. Continue reading
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Local Fruit
The first of the cantaloupes have come in, vine-ripened and very sweet. Prompt: Make a photograph of something you eat today. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack – make it look tasty. Continue reading
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Welsh Garden
This lovely garden is in the entrance to the Great Tre Rhew B&B. The Beavan family were stars of the BBC’s Lambing Live TV show, and I was privileged to spend a couple of days with them on my trip through the UK. Prompt: How does your garden grow? Make a photo of something growing… Continue reading
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Eating the Melon!
We decided to see if the melon that I harvested was any good to eat. It was wonderful, so we ate the whole melon! It was so sweet and tasty. I saved the seeds to potentially replant next year since it’s an open-pollinated variety. Continue reading
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Harvesting the Last of the Garden
With a frost coming, it was time to harvest the last of the garden. My only other crops left were melons. One was a watermelon and one was a cantaloupe. The only one that reached a respectable size was the cantaloupe. It’s not ripe yet, but I harvested it anyway. Better gardeners than I have… Continue reading
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My Black Thumb Strikes
The second crop from my garden was going to be corn. However, this is the sum total of all the ears we got. Most of them are only partially filled with kernels. I threw away a lot. I noticed that when I was picking them, there were lots of earwigs, especially in the tops. The… Continue reading
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Farm Tour Days and Garden Woes
The West Elks Wine Trail Tour is this weekend, so we put up all of our farm tour signs. Unfortunately, my black thumb is finally starting to work. The main batch of corn isn’t doing well. They’re pale green with brown and drying leaves. The corn I transplanted into the main part of the corral… Continue reading