We finally got some more rain this week. It has helped the lawn green up and kept me from watering the garden. We have also had some very warm weather this week with highs close to 85. That a solid 20 degrees above normal for this time of year. Not a lot to report on [...]
Archive for April, 2012
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Volunteering at the Tulip Festival
April 28th, 2012 
Rick So I bet you have been wondering where the heck I’ve been for the last week or so??? Many of you will remember that I am part of the Utah State University Master Gardeners program. Well one of the requirements of that program is that we give 40 hours of volunteer service. I’ve spent most [...]
Arbor Day 2012
April 27th, 2012 Rick “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” –Greek proverb We have a lot of trees around Stoney Acres. A quick count tells me we have over 20 deciduous and evergreen trees. Most of our trees are meant for shade. We have a big variety of types [...]
Cheeseburger Pizza
April 26th, 2012 Rick We love Pizza! And we are crazy about homemade pizza. We have 4 kids, 2 are teenagers so we go through a lot of pizza around here. We do buy pizza from resturants but we really like to make our own. I don’t know if you can really call homemade pizza healthy, but at least [...]
Monday Harvest Report 4-23-12
April 23rd, 2012 Rick Another busy week at Stoney Acres. Lots of planting going on and a little harvesting. Let start with something new!! We had our first lettuce harvest for the year. Just a little bit but very tasty. This handful of leaves went on a pizza we made. Wait, what did I just say, lettuce on [...]
