Cottage Wood Hill

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This is my most beautiful vegetable garden creation yet! I started this in my raised bed and I’ve recently put netting over this bed to keep the cabbage butterflies out. So far everything is propering.

I’m always keeping my eye out for information about the safety of the food chain and the dangers of industrial farming practices, and today ran across a story on the change.org website about fertilizer—particularly manure. Sure, we all know that milk without antibiotics is better for us (so we don’t build up resistance in our [...]

I’ve never attempted to grow a hydrangea before, and thought this one had died after the last heat spell we had this winter. Lo’ and behold, it has returned, and here are its first blossoms. Hydrangea, also known as Hortensia (I’ve always thought Hortense was such a goofy-cool girl name), changes color according to the [...]

I love my honeysuckle vine. I have it covering an old fence on a spot near my herb garden that gets the most intense sun in the summer. It has thrived. I planted mine for it’s lovely sweet fragrance and pretty coloration, however, if I were an herbal priestess I might make a poultice of [...]

Here are some volunteers that look a bit like cantaloupe…or, perhaps zucchini?

My baby pears are growing well! This is the third year I’ve had this tree. The first year it produced, but the second year the tiny pears all fell off. That was when I was having problems with my sprinkler system, so I think that they didn’t get watered enough. I’m so looking forward to [...]