Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 7th, 2016
Almost all the fruit seems to have decided to get ripe at once. The blackberries and black raspberries are the only types of fruit which seems to be keeping with their normal ripening schedule. Everything else is a bit early, and all at once. This is the third picking of strawberries and raspberries, with lots […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 1st, 2016
Painting is making progress; most of the primer has been applied. The south and west sides of the house are ready for their final coat of paint; part of the north side has been primed, and the east is yet to be done. There is a House Wren who built her nest behind a board […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 28th, 2016
Rodent wars have been heating up, and we had to get a move on and finish the wire cages for the main raised beds. The pack rats got into one of the potato beds before we had completed the wire cages, and they cut out at least half of the plant stems and leaves. The […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 12th, 2016
June 2015 to June 2016 was just the same old, same old, except for forest fires and hopefully that sort of thing doesn’t happen again – like ever. Wishful thinking, I know. But still. All we did last year was gardening, making jams and preserving things from the garden, and staying home because the roads […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 1st, 2015
The greenhouse is all planted and has been for about a week, but I waited to take pictures until some of the baby plants had time to put on more leaves and let us know if they were happy with their new living arrangements. So these pictures are the “before” everybody gets with the program […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2015
This year, pretty much as soon as we had baby plants (peas and spinach), up in the raised beds, the local rodent population rejoiced and sent out invitations for the party season. Early party-goers harvest the majority of the spinach before it had real leaves, and dug up the peas. Argh. So we thought about […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9th, 2015
The drive down was interesting – snow and rain showers through the mountains. We didn’t really take warm enough clothes for that sort of weather, so all we could do was hope it would be better the next day. It was better, not much precipitation, but cold and windy. On well, that’s the way it […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 2nd, 2015
Our satsuma orange tree arrived via snail mail today, and the planter arrived by Fedex yesterday (good timing!) and so today we put the planter together and planted our new baby tree. Learn something new every day – it takes 12 months for a ripe fruit from the time a blossom appears. Next we should […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 23rd, 2015
We planted some lettuce and swiss chard seeds in the greenhouse on February 10th. The baby plants are just now starting to get a little bigger but no real leaves yet, so I’m not sure how ahead of the game we got planting them so early. But still, we planted seeds in February!! That must […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 11th, 2015
Well, not totally nothing. We’ve been getting new seed catalogs in the mail, and thinking about what we want to plant next year. And thinking about all the strawberries (hopefully!), I’ll have to play with in June. He was growling and hissing at her, so Dan used the cat attitude adjustment tool, aka squirt […]