Firesign Farm

I'm staying busy, trying to get my harvest in while the weather holds for me. Of course, the longer we go without a killing frost, the m...

Today was a busy day - I was up early and off to a Soroptimist District Meeting in Yerington, about 90 minutes drive away. Plus, it was hot ...

The harvest continues. When the first onions started to flop over, I pulled the soaker hose off them and bent the rest of them down. After a...

It's the time of year when I try for a delicate balance of harvesting. I want to let everything get as ripe as possible, but also don...

The autumnal equinox, the first day of fall - our nights are getting colder, but today was a beautiful day, not too hot, not too cold. I sho...

In these recipes, do not change the ratio of tomatoes (acidic) to the rest of the vegies (non-acidic), and don't forget to add the lemon...

Finally, I found enough ripe tomatoes down in the center of my plants, and put up 5 pints whole tomatoes (I also found a few Asian pears tha...

As I was coming up our street towards the house yesterday, I noticed that the leaves on one of the Honey Locust trees have started to turn t...

Just a quick little post today - got lots of things to do. The shallots are all cured, and hung up in an net stocking (like oranges come in...

I always start a few sweet basil plants in Spring, and plant them out in the tomato and pepper bed. I start picking leaves as soon as possib...

A lot of the garden is behind its usual ripening schedule. I think maybe the weeks of smoke-darkened skies earlier this summer might have se...

The two of us live in quite a small house. Aries added on the master bedroom and a real bathroom/laundry - almost doubling the size of the p...

Before I left to go camping I picked all the okra and zucchini, knowing I'd have more than enough when I returned. And so I did. But I d...

Sorry - I know I've been a bit missing-in-action here lately. I had family visiting, presentations and events leading up to the Primary ...

After my last post about mice stashing olives under the hood of the truck, I got an email from a friend saying that when he had problems wit...

Aries' work commute to Tahoe is 25 miles, one-way - up 2,000 feet over a 7,000' pass then dropping back down 1,000' to lake leve...

I just picked my first three zucchini, so it's time to make my favorite snack. If you like the deep-fried zucchini sticks appetizer in r...

I love my garden, and especially this time of year. I wander out there all the time, just looking - pulling a weed here, checking for bugs t...

We went to a housewarming in our neighborhood tonight. Two generations have owned the house above us in the twenty-some years we've been...

Around one edge of my garden, I have a perennial allium bed to provide plants each year for the garden. Alliums are the onion-family vegetab...