I haven’t been keeping up well with blogging this spring … too many things sapping my creative energies up, but I don’t want more time to go by without documenting all the beautiful and interesting things going on here at our little family homestead! Lots of veggies and plants started again this year … I may have gone a little overboard with dry bean seed planting when I first heard there might be a food/meat shortage and I was anticipating possibly stocking up and/or selling plants to others in need of rations! But thankfully that doesn’t appear to be an issue (at least not at the moment…). If the growing season goes well, we’ll have an abundance of dry beans available in the fall!
This is a bit of a “photo dump” of things happening around here…
Dry beans started from seed Butternut squash My “reward” after a hot day of planting Cute dandelion Iris Kids in our free canoe on the pond The kids have spent 3 or 4 hours in this at one time, scooping frogs and tadpoles, or just reading with snacks Iris close up Lupine leaf Peony bud My Mary, “rescued” from the second hand shop Apple blossom We have 13 apple trees which are just gorgeous when they are in blossom Medley Acres Mascot: Willa Mae Medley I didn’t even count how many pots of cucumbers and tomatoes we had this year… lots Unfortunately the wind caught our little wee greenhouses at one point and tipped over a lot of our plants… We had to kind of guess at which type of cucumber or tomato wound up in which pot… sigh. Off the front porch I thought the peonies, iris and daisies were so pretty together Its amazing how full this is after being so empty looking a few weeks ago My kitchen window sill Peony up close Lupine More lupine Daisy Daisy with honeybee from our property Don’t know what this is… it’s a pretty bush on the corner of our house Peony The started plants that went into the Field Garden (aka Farden…) this past weekend