Our first cucumber! I’ve been trying for several years, but it took the creation of a “warm bed” (raised bed covered with black plastic and watered carefully with warm-ish water, not freezing […]

I feel badly about skipping posts here and yammering on about berries and the garden, rather than embroidery and literacy, but the new website and blog are not online yet, and this […]

It’s been more than a week since I baked anything with blueberries, and I have yet to make the Blueberry Pandowdy. That doesn’t mean we’re not eating blueberries, though. We have blueberry […]

Side view. Bottom view. It weighed in at 1.5 ounces, three times the weight of a normal, good-sized berry. I’m picking strawberries daily, anywhere from two cups to two quarts. Even the […]

I’m certain you’re dying to know how the adventure is progressing, so I shan’t keep you waiting. Thursday, I made coriander bread. After reading recipes for Blueberry Betty, I had a feeling […]

Well, I have failed to use all the 2009 blueberries before harvesting 2010 blueberries. We will not discuss the extent of my failure. They’re ripe. I have 2 1/2 gallons of 2010 […]