And weeding, because what is a blog I write without weeding in it? Ah, but this case of the weeds was the largest yet. Patricia, Tessa, Mackenzie and I battled the bindweed around the raspberries. There was so much of the stuff that I stopped looking for it and just dug in front of me, inevitably finding a tangled mat of bindweed root.
I feel a bit guilty saying this, since it’s the bane of the garden, but bindweed is a pretty fun weed to pull—like Helen said one time, “You just follow it and follow it and it’s so easy to pull out a whole root!”
I think my thing with weeding is starting to grow a bit too large. I’m not much of a gardener, but to all of the gardeners out there, if you’d like some weeding done, I can help. :)
I feel a bit guilty saying this, since it’s the bane of the garden, but bindweed is a pretty fun weed to pull—like Helen said one time, “You just follow it and follow it and it’s so easy to pull out a whole root!”
I think my thing with weeding is starting to grow a bit too large. I’m not much of a gardener, but to all of the gardeners out there, if you’d like some weeding done, I can help. :)
The concord grapes in Life Song Commons finally ripened, so of course it was also jamming time. I’m usually the only cook and eater in my kitchen, so making large batches of anything normally doesn’t turn out well for me. So it was fun to make lots and lots and lots of concord grape jam—Patricia has an amazing book with canning recipes, and this grape jam is no exception. I don’t even like jam that much (it comes from growing up without sugar) and I think this jam is delicious.
 Some of the beds we planted with cover crop are starting to sprout now. I saw one that Tessa and I recently did and thought back to when we were sprinkling the seeds on the ground. It just hit me at that moment: Turns out, we were sprinkling life. How cool is that? While we're talking about cool moments: Tessa and I joined in on this month’s circle. The stories we heard were amazing. Thank you to everyone who came! It was an honor to listen in. | 
Doug and I got started with winterizing the pipes in the garden. Basically, we’re adding valves to all of the lines off the main line from the pump house so we can cut them off in the winter, except for the one we want to keep active. This meant we had to dig—a lot. For two and a half days, digging holes and hacking at pipes was all we did. BUT it was beautiful outside for all of those days, so despite feeling like Stanley Yelnats from Holes, I did appreciate the work. And it's for a good cause, so there was that to think about, too. |
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