Found Dreaming

August 2015, our first year on the expanded garden. We increased our growing area at least 20 times over what we had planted in 2014, yes we caught the bug pretty hard. We really like the red woodchips from the big box store, they probably…

Basket full of awesome. While there are many rewards in gardening the harvest tops the list. A great motivator in our wanting a large garden and chickens is obviously to provide food for ourselves and others that we know is responsibly grown without the modifiers…

Potatoes behind the Whinery in 2016, I thought they did well at a few lbs per row foot. Have always though growing potatoes in the garden weren’t worth the effort because of how cheap they are in the store but like anything else from your…

The image above is a Calendula, just on their second year in the garden but this versatile plant wintered over in the greenhouse and is beginning to secures its place. They make copious amounts of blooms all summer long and begin to produce them early…

The early producers, Those first of the season plants that let us know in often delicious ways the garden season is once again upon us. It gets the fires stoked up and excitement for the year to come in the garden.   Depending on how…

We have had Desert Morning Glory growing here for several years, for the most part they are fairly unassuming and make for a good ground cover around the fruit and nut trees where they fill in a thick mat all on their own. About the…

Nero Di Toscana – Dinosaur Kale Sherry found out this was the green bits in Olive Garden Potato Soup so she said “grow this”, and of course I did. A pretty amazing plant with a variety of uses, it is said to be hardy against…

Oregano is an easy growing herb that offers immense flavor for many dishes, it is a medicinal whose use dates back to Hippocrates as an antiseptic. Oregano is also among the herbs fast replacing antibiotics in chicken raising as the public is becoming more aware…

We began gardening in 2014, in the one image above you can see two of the block raised beds are all green. These pictures are all from March of 2015 other than last one which is from July. This shows just what a difference a…