Lessons in the Dirt

The lupines are still blooming!   It’s Labor Day weekend  …  and the lupines are still blooming!   This brings me so much joy!   Lupines are my favorite flowers!   Right up there next to sunflowers!   The lupines always start blooming…

A pop of bold vivid color on a grey, overcast, chilly day.  This makes me so happy!   My daughter gave me a package of yellow and a package of pink gladiolus bulbs for Mother’s Day last year.   The…

I was headed down the back deck steps with the watering can, to take some water over to the raspberries  …  when the gladiolus caught my eye!   The sun was coming up right behind it, and the gladiolus…

The temperatures climbed up into the 90’s this week.   Hubby and I do not have a soaker hose in the berry garden, so in the coolness of the early morning I carried several watering cans over to water…

Growing alongside the raspberries in my garden are a couple of strawberry plants.   This strawberry plant here is one which hubby and I purchased three years ago from a fancy schmancy garden nursery.   Much to my surprise this…

As I was picking raspberries I came across this grouping of berries up underneath the vines and leaves.   My immediate “blink” reaction was:  That’s just like parenting!   These berries are not ready to be picked yet.   They are…

I was out in the garden picking raspberries in the cool quiet of the early morning.   As I gazed up at the highest raspberries reaching for the sky … the thought suddenly struck me:  those raspberries way up…

Hubby and I purchased our raspberry plants several years ago.  It was the middle of the winter, and Home Depot had little cardboard tubes of raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries for sale just outside the front entrance.   Hubby and…