Many perennial plants are just breaking dormancy in the spring and won’t be blooming until summer or fall. These great plants, however, add spring color with early flowers. Be sure to include at least of these for cheerful color early in the growing season. Bleeding Heart (Dicentra spp.) – Hardy to zones 5-9. Part shade spring […]
Sweet and Sour Spring Stir Fry
Right about the middle of May, I start getting antsy to see fresh, local asparagus popping up at newly opened farmer’s markets where I live. You see, we spend about 5 months buried under piles of snow. And where I come from, there is just something about the weather, and just the right soil conditions […]
Spring Fling $150 Giveaway – Because we love you!
Some blogging friends and I had gotten into the winter slumps. Not really sick or anything – just dreary and generally “blah”. So we decided to celebrate spring by putting together a Spring Fling Giveaway! $150 gift card to Amazon, sponsored entirely by ourselves for you, our amazing readers. Because we thought it would be […]
Dragging the Pasture – Old Tractors and Feeders
This is spring at the ranch. Plans for the coming year. Preparation. Disking (plowing), dragging, new life, new plants…..I believe Spring has the most hope of any season and I adore it.