Grounded. At last.
Spring Planting Moon Yes! Planted … Continue reading
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The Late Summer Garden
Lughnasa Waning Honey Extraction Moon Working in the late summer garden. Those creepy pre-beetle organisms continue to gnaw on my potato plants and I gnaw right back. So far the invasion has not gained a significant beach head thanks to … Continue reading
Bee and Garden Diary
Mid-Summer Waning Garlic Moon Today I performed partial hive box reversals in all three colonies. The second hive box of three gets rotated to the bottom and the first or bottom box rotates up to take its place. This means … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, Garden
Tagged apples, beets, carrots, leeks, lettuce, onions, potatoes, raspberries, reversals, spinach, strawberries, sugar snap peas, tomatoes
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Nix Still Comes Down…Geesh
Imbolc Waning Bridgit Moon This has been a nix two-day event. The Woolly’s, for the first time I recall, canceled. Too little parking around Charlie Haislet’s condo. The days events scattered around me, I never quite got traction, feel a … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Health, Weather +Climate
Tagged beans, chicken, garlic, onions, resistance work, snow, snow blower
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Cooking With Clay
Winter Waning Moon of the Winter Solstice A long time ago I got a clay pot for cooking, a romertopf. Over many years I used it at least every several weeks, then it went in the cupboard, not to come … Continue reading
Planting and Reaping
Fall Waning Harvest Moon The last forty bulbs, a monet tulip collection, have gone in the ground. I planted a couple of hundred daffodil and tulips at various spots in the orchard, which we see from the table while eating … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Culture, Garden
Tagged beets, butternut squash, carrots, leeks, Monet, onions, tulips
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Harvest
Fall New (Harvest) Moon Second round of apiguard in the parent and the divide. The top box on the package colony has gotten heavier, but I plan to feed them some more as I will do to the parent once … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Bees, Family, Friends, Great Wheel, Memories, Travel
Tagged Apiguard, beans, beets, butternut squash, carrots, corn, divide, harvest, onions, package, parent, swiss chard
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How Our Garden Grows
Beltane Waning Planting Moon Plants up, time for photos:
Posted in Dogs, Garden, permaculture
Tagged bok choy, garlic, onions, orchard, Rigel, strawberries, wisteria, woodenware
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Planting During the Full Planting Moon
Beltane Full Planting Moon Ah, the sweet feel of being in synch with the moon. I planted Scarlet Nantes carrots and golden beets amongst the green onions and the radicchio. Threw in a few zinnias for good measure. Next in … Continue reading
Posted in Garden, Health, permaculture
Tagged arugula, beets, bok choy, carrots, chard, flame lettuce, irrigation, kale, onions
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A lot today
Spring Awakening Moon Rain last night. Thanks to all you who offered a faith tradition appropriate rain whatever. It worked! That means the onion sets I planted have a nice present in their new home and the garlic and parsnip … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Culture, Cooking, Humanities
Tagged ArtRemix, Brenda Langston, garlic, Latin, onions, parsnip
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