Today as I was watering the plants I had a surprise. Did you see it? Look again, down by the water hole. I had thought the frog had left our patio, hadn’t seen him in quite some time but I guess he’s just good at hiding. I wonder if he lives inside the planter or […]
Category Archives: Gardening
Sun Frog painting
Here’s an oil painting of the Sun Frog. Well, sort of. I actually created it using the oil effect in GIMP – GNU Image Manipulation Program. It makes a nice wallpaper image for your desktop.
Sun Frog
Kate took this picture of the frog on the 5th centered in the sunflower bud. In other garden news: We’ve lost a small sunflower and the last Siletz tomato to the same weak-trunk problem. I don’t know if pests are responsible or what.
Frog!
Watering the plants this morning I saw a welcome visitor to our garden – a little green frog! We saw several last year in the porch garden. I’m glad to see that at least one has come back this year. He’s sitting up near the top of the sunflower.
July 3rd Overview
Time just keeps flying past. We’re getting some excellent produce from Boistfort Valley Farm – our CSA. In our own little neck of the woods the porch garden continues to grow. It hasn’t taken over the porch like last year but things are coming along. The chard and sunflowers continue to grow very well in […]
Sun Cooking!
Finally! The clouds have pulled back and the sun is out so that we can use our Sun Oven. I decided to give it a shot at reheating a pizza slice for lunch. I waited until it reached about 300 ² F then put the pizza in our camp cook pot. A darker pot would […]
