28 Sunday Sep 2025
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31 Thursday Jul 2025
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beans, big girl pants, blessed, garden, green, moments, nature, peas, picked, plants, purple, tailed, weather, widow
yesterday I picked purple and green beans, a few peas and a bunch of dried peas (looks like I missed a whole feed of them, sigh)…
I also spotted some small cucumbers which are not quite ready but should be in a few days… mostly they are growing on the other side of the fence, lol…
once the veggies were picked, I topped and tailed them before cutting up…
I was so excited that I cooked them for my lunch… at least now I don’t get sad when the purple ones turn green when cooked, lol…
they were delicious;-)…
30 Wednesday Jul 2025
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bachelor buttons, beans, big girl pants, blessed, capture, food, garden, hibiscus, moments, nature, plants, purple, veggies, weather, widow
had some fun Tuesday morning in the garden…
happy to see the first hibiscus flower open… it didn’t seem to bloom as much as usual through winter…
and noticed begonias, tiny poppies and more bachelor buttons… the bachelor buttons have gone crazy, lol…
I’m hoping to capture some of their seeds and sprinkle them throughout the garden;-)…
and at last I saw some beans, purple ones, woohoo…
I even pulled weeds from the fancy morning glory planter…
they were planted late so I am hoping they will bloom before it gets too cold…
feels great as the garden is beginning to produce ;-)…
22 Tuesday Jul 2025
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beans, big girl pants, blessed, bumblebee, green beans, lamb, moments, nature, purple, weather, widow, Wolseley Farmers Market
made it to the Wolseley Farmers Market today…
on the walk from the car to the market, spotted this sweet bumblebee on some purple flowers;-)…
I was so happy to find little cucumbers and green beans… and we got some lamb chops and bacon…
as soon as we arrived home I prepared half of the beans and then cooked and ate them…
my housemate was happy for me to have them all, lol…
what a treat…
19 Monday May 2025
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arches, beans, big girl pants, blessed, cucumbers, family, garden, glitters, moments, nature, peas, soil, weather, widow, zip tying
on May 9th, we found the chicken wire we’ve been looking for, to add to the arches in the side garden…
I am hoping this will make it easier for the peas, cucumbers, and beans to climb up and over the space;-)…
my housemate did a great job of zip tying it all around the arch, and it kind of glitters;-)…
peas were planted and have already popped through the soil…
01 Sunday Sep 2024
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beans, big girl pants, blessed, delicious, garden, moments, nature, plants, stepstool, stool, tomatoes, top and tail, widow
I picked beans for my supper a few days ago and had to use the step stool again, lol…
I also brought in the last tomatoes although they weren’t ripe…
I still have to cut the tomato plants down, but haven’t quite got to that piece of work…
it is always an enjoyable and relaxing job to top and tail the beans before cooking them…
and they were delicious…
23 Tuesday Jul 2024
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yesterday a friend brought me a large bag of fresh green beans…
this morning while I was watching a tv show I trimmed them all and put some into two pots…
I cooked the first batch for my lunch…
then the second for supper, with a few leftovers for tomorrow…
they were delicious…
I do love fresh veggies;-)…
16 Tuesday Jul 2024
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basil, beans, big girl pants, blessed, cucumbers, garden, moments, nature, peas, plants, rain, some, tomatoes, veggie garden, weather, widow
all of the rain has made some of the veggie garden plants quite happy…
the tomatoes are doing well and growing bigger each day…
the peapods are filling out rather nicely and I had my first peas… from just one pod, lol…
the beans are growing up the arch but don’t have any flowers yet and the cucumbers are very slow in flowering…
I think that I may need to plant more beans and even cucumbers… sadly the butternut squash seed did not produce…
and, finally the basil has started to fill the pot;-)…
15 Wednesday May 2024
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beans, big girl pants, blessed, digging, garden, moments, nature, peas, rain, raining, seeds, soil, weather, widow
up early yesterday, had a quick breakfast, and headed out to get some gardening done before the rain started…
brought out the baskets…
put on my gloves, gathered up seeds, soil, tags, and tools…
emptied one of the nine vegetable planter boxes and then as I dug in fertilizer and loosened up the soil, I removed a bit of soil from each pot and then added in fresh soil…
next I planted peas and beans in the area where they will be able to grow up the arch…
I also planted some in the file cabinet planter so they can grow up the other side of the arch…
the cucumbers and tomatoes will go into the remaining pots around the end of the month… I have a few butternut squash seeds to put in as well…
and then it started raining, so everything got put away and I came into the house, lol…
24 Sunday Sep 2023
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beans, big girl pants, blessed, boiled, dinner, food, garden, last, moments, nature, plants, tasty, veggie garden, weather, widow
between the bits of rain yesterday, I went out and picked the last of the beans…
well, I think it was the last of them… I’ve thought that a few times, lol…
cut them and boiled them up for supper… they were delicious, even if they were a little on the overgrown side…
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