Our Happy Acres

When most people think of chives, they think of the part that is most often used: long, slender green leaves with a mild oniony taste. But once a year, chive plants give us a second edible harvest when they bloom.
Many of the common culinary herbs have edible blossoms, but the chive blossoms are not only [...]

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Another mostly green harvest here this week. The asparagus harvest had been slowing down, but the recent rains have perked it up considerably. We harvested almost 2 pounds of it this week, bringing the total for the season to over 5 pounds. Some of the thinner spears found their way into this frittata we had [...]

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A good garden fork is a thing to behold. I got this one a few years back after I had broken the ash handle on my last fork. This time I opted for fiberglass. Nothing like an unbreakable handle for some serious forking!

Mine is not quite as new or shiny as Dan’s fork he got [...]

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I took an opportunity this week to capture photos of some of our blooming plants. I started with the double flowering cherry tree. I believe it is a Kwanzan cherry, and it was literally covered in fluffy pink blossoms this spring.

Most of the blossoms have now fallen on the ground.

Some have fallen on the concrete [...]

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Gardening here is in a state of flux. Cool season crops are maturing, even while I start to get the warm weather loving plants in the ground. It’s a busy time of year but I love it.
I’m still sitting on nearly 1000 tomato, pepper and eggplant seedlings. I’ve got a few planted myself, and given [...]

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The harvest this week is the biggest of the year so far, and the color of most of the foods is still green, with maybe a little red thrown in from lettuce.
We had 2.5 pounds of green asparagus, 1.4 pounds of Asian greens (mainly komatsuna and choy sum), and 1.4 pounds of spinach. We’ve been [...]

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