Category Archives: Autumn

September, Spiders and Stuff

Everything is blooming well in the yard. I can’t believe it is already September! Wow. This early part of September we are starting to see the change in the seasons as the days are hot but the nights are really cool. The front yard where we planted new seeds and plants has filled in really well. We also have a lot of insect life! Here are a few photos from around the yard.

I thought this zinnia was cool how it grew to a double decker

This spider was HUGE! And so strange looking. Click to see a larger view

Nice pink zinnia

Another flower from the front with bugs mating I think

This is a really black one-legged grasshopper on my basil! He was soon hereafter chicken food.

The front yard filling in with flowers

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Fall Gardening and Harvest in Greeley

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This weekend we started the task of the last harvest. Things are starting to turn brown and since the frost hit, our basil, tomatoes and peppers have not been happy. We decided to go gather up as much of the bounty as we could wrangle together. We started to turn under the garden and we need to do the same to the greenhouse and move the chickens in, but that we might save for another warmer day. Here is a fun video I made of our harvest, greenhouse and garden. I just started playing with Youtube’s video editor so it was kind of fun to do. I hope you like it:

Here’s some of the bounty all washed

Look how purple this potato is…and iridescent!

Today we made egg and potato breakfast burritos with this and since it’s chili out, I’ll use some of these ingredients to make some chili to stay in too!

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Flowers, Flowers, Everywhere

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Last night Britton and I went to meet the Boyles Family at their farm in east Greeley. It was really nice meeting Claire, Matt and their adorable kids, Simon and Madzie. We got a little tour of the farm that grows small fruits and veggies, chickens, pigs and turkeys, but also very beautiful flowers. Since it is the end of the season and frost will shortly be upon us, Claire invited us to cut some flowers and take them home in a huge 5 gallon bucket. So we did! And when we got home I knew I wanted to make bouquets out of them.

Britton took this picture of the flower field (zinnias) with his cell phone