If your house is anything like ours, then this time of year your counter tops are covered in tomatoes, peaches, melons and more all going through their final ripen before they are put away for the winter. And around our place that also means it’s time for the arrival of fruit flies!! Mrs. Stoney took [...]
Archive for September, 2012
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September 26th, 2012 
Rick So I’m writing this post by hand. Yes that’s right the original draft of this post was written on paper with a pencil! Why! Well let me explain. Mrs. Stoney and I looked around our house one night a couple of weeks ago and noticed something that really bugged us: The two smallest Stoney’s were sitting at the kitchen table [...]
Tags: Fall and Winter Garden Progress
September 25th, 2012 Rick Over the weekend I gave you a tour of how the warm season vegetables are doing in our garden. Today I thought I’d give you a chance to see how the cool season veggies are doing. Lets start out in the lettuce bed. We planted out all of our lettuce starts for the season over [...]
Monday Harvest Report 9-24-2012
September 24th, 2012 Rick Another week has gone by and fall has officially arrived. The weather stayed in the mid 80′s all week but the forecast has more fall like weather arriving this week. We may have seen the last of the 80′s for this year! The cooler weather brings with it a big slow down in the production [...]
One tired garden and two tired gardeners!!
September 22nd, 2012 Rick We spent the bulk of the day on Saturday doing garden related tasks. The summer garden is looking really tired. Here’s a few shots of how things are looking for this last week of September. The many of the tomatoes are on their last legs. Just a few small fruits left to ripen. These are [...]
