A glimpse into the menagerie of the community garden and general house yard through fall and winter 2013/2014.
Always like to show off what our browsers can do when they put their minds to it. Push down that netting to get the delectable bean leaf tips! They’ve developed finesse so they don’t get their teeth caught in the netting…
Apologies to our beautiful praying Mantis, who is probably eyeing an insect or two under the netting. What a beaut!
Tasty greens sprouting for fall crop. Mature beets further right even overwintered well under the snow pack.
The typical way we keep the squash, melon, and tomato harvest aired and dry during the mild, not-too-rainy days of fall….stored under my eaves.
A record-setting snow-then-freeze episode the very first weekend of December 2013, followed by a record-setting snowfall in early February 2014, made us very aware of how little we can predict anything anymore, or when our gardens are tested to the maximum adaptability, and how miraculously resilient plants can be. The witnessing of when a healthy, mature plant “decides” it will not struggle to survive the next year, but yield to the new energies of the next generation of seedlings.
Where’s the bench seat?!
14″ AFTER the snow has packed down for 3 days…
The birds had to learn to eat snow on their feeder for a few days. Thank goodness for seeds on the old flower stalks, although the snow buried a lot of those.
And spring brings the energy of renewal…
Kwan Yin being sheltered by a bower of the Siberian kiwi vine.
High Vibe Bounty 