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How Does Your Garden Grow? Sugar Snap Pea Edition

Posted on August 28, 2013 by BrassyDel

This year my garden has been a bit… lackluster. In the spring I weeded, and tilled, and I did not bother putting compost down again this year because I apparently don’t want anything to grow. I also did not put Preen down early enough (I always worry it will mess with my vegetable seeds) so the garden was overgrown with…

Ride Cow! Harvest Moon Fanart

Posted on July 9, 2012 by BrassyDel

I’m pretty much in love with Harvest Moon, after picking up Harvest Moon: Animal Parade for the Wii for $15 after Christmas. I used to play FarmVille on Facebook, but Zynga’s privacy policies are fairly dystopian. So at the time, I would have itty bitty baby Hanners on my lap and we’d talk about the animals. She loved it, and…

Eating From the Dirt: Gourds Editions

Posted on November 29, 2011 by BrassyDel

It’s a bit late, since my garden is empty now and Colorado is already in its 9 months of winter, but here. Have a post I wrote in early October and didn’t get around to publishing. I vaguely recall my lovely neighbor, who helped me through pretty much every step of my very first garden, warning me not to go…

Squoosh.

Posted on August 19, 2011 by BrassyDel

Squish. Squash. I have squash! Yellow summer squash and plump, green zucchini. I actually let them get a bit too big before harvesting. In my defense, they were hiding in their squashy, leafy bundles. Now I just need to find a good recipe for zucchini bread, preferably gluten free. And if it freezes well, even better! How do you love…

What a Sweet Little Tomato She is

Posted on August 15, 2011 by BrassyDel

After carefully rescuing them from the forest of weeds wildflowers, I was delighted to find some small, green tomatoes growing in the garden. Hubbles may think they are evil, a sort of dastardly poison fruit, but I love tomatoes. I will eat them raw, broiled, sliced with salt, in salads, on sandwiches, in eggs, et cetra, et cetra. They’re almost…

Overgrown

Posted on August 10, 2011 by BrassyDel

I promised you guys that I’d show you my garden space when it was no longer just tilled dirt. Well. It’s not just tilled dirt anymore. In fact, up until a couple of days ago, it was like this: Oops. I actually weeded it a couple of weeks ago, when it looked like this, and put down Preen. I think…

Early Blooms

Posted on March 28, 2011 by BrassyDel

We’ve had such a mild winter out here in this part of Colorado that the first days of Spring actually feel like Spring. Normally I think of March as being very snowy and I wasn’t expecting my bulbs to start sprouting up until at least April, if not May. Not only have they sprouted, some of the Crocuses are already…

Bunny’s Bulb Buffet

Posted on November 23, 2010 by BrassyDel

Last November, I planted something like 75 crocus bulbs in my front yard at the end of October. When they bloomed in early May, I got about 4 or 5 actual flowers. Several days after planting, I noticed little depressions in the dirt. Uh oh. Was it just settling from having dug and planted recently, or was it something more……

The Salad Bar

Posted on November 8, 2010 by BrassyDel

Today’s sampling was a gift for someone, done on Bristol Vellum with Micron pens and Copic markers. (Incidentally, if anyone has an extra $327 burning a hole in their pocket, they can feel free to broaden my colour choices with the Copic SKETCH 72-Color Set A, and if anyone is curious I’m using Set B with a handful of extra…

Welcome to Colorado

Posted on March 17, 2010 by BrassyDel

Today, it is absolutely gorgeous outside. The sun is shining, squirrels are frolicking, and Tank is barking like a nutter. According to weather.com, the imminent forcast is a high of 67 F today (Wed.) and 65 F tomorrow (Thurs). Friday is a high of 34 F and a 90% chance of snow. Well, then. So much for gardening this weekend…

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