Category Archives: Gardening

Glorious Autumn Days and Chickens

I am not a big fan of the weather turning colder, but one thing that is absolutely stunning for about 2 weeks here in Colorado are the changing colors of the trees. Many people will head up to Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park solely to see the aspens turn to a bright yellow. Here in our own yard, we’ve had a pretty spectacular display in our trees as well. I managed to capture this shot of the chickens and the changing leaves of the paper birch tree without even knowing I had. I put the camera on the ground facing up and snapped. I think it turned out rather lovely.

It’s definitely one of the better pictures of the chickens, you can really see the detail

And here’s a shot of the crabapple tree in the bright sunlight

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Gleaning and Cleaning

The weather dipped below freezing last night and so our beautiful greenhouse jungle turned into a limp mess of blackened smushy tomato, squash and cucumber plants. So today, now that the weather has improved, we decided to clean out the greenhouse and glean all the veggies from the dead vines.

Here Britton and the eager chickens get to work

Britton in the process with a watchful Kitty

Some of our find: cucumbers, carrots, lots of tomatoes, peppers, and squash

Spaghetti Squash from our garden. Funny story…the whole time it was growing we thought it was a freaky watermelon! 😉

Pretty chickens in the yard

Kitty in the littered yard. One of our chickens, Henrietta, is molting along with the trees

Schnoodle, Kitty, Britton and chickens -in the greenhouse- after cleaning it out

In addition to cleaning out the greenhouse, we also started the multi-phase task of cleaning out our closets. I started with my clothes since I have way more than Britton.

Pile of clothes that I sorted in the basement on a cold day

Pile of clothes ready for Goodwill

Even though this pile of clothes looks impressive, it barely scratched the surface on the amount of clothes I will have to sort through before we move.

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Surprises from the Greenhouse

It’s getting to be that time once again where we need to move all the happy tropical plants from the humid, wet and hot greenhouse back inside for the winter. Tropical plants can’t live below about 40 degrees F, and so we have to bring them in to the climate-controlled fake tropical space we create around here in our house for the winter.

When Britton started taking the citrus, pomegranates and pineapple plants in he also brought in the coffee tree. To our surprise, the little red berries had lost their skin and fruit pulp and so the bean seed started sprouting! (We saw the rolly-pollies at work on the red fruit pulp earlier.) So cool!

Coffee bean sprout

The coffee bean sprouts are awesome!

We went to the store and found the perfect pot for the coffee sprouts!

After moving out the potted plants, he was also able to get a little deeper into the greenhouse and found all these cucumbers! Surprise! Guess what we will be eating for snack for the next week!

A sink full of huge cucumbers

If the greenhouse is any indication of what we’ll get in Puerto Rico (which I think it is because of it’s consistent humidity and water) then we will be in for some fantastic gardening!

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Gardens Galore!

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Our garden has been producing like mad, as has my mom’s. We brought home some Armenian cucumbers from her house where they were growing over three feet long and zucchinis that will make great stir fry and breads! Craziness. We’ve been enjoying cucumbers and tomatoes and lots of salsa. You’ll have to stay tuned to The Rad Dish for the recipes. I still haven’t figured out what to do with the flying saucer squash we grew called patty pan. It’s very cool looking though!

All from our garden!

Salsa fresca hecha con verduras del jardin!

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